William Trevor (eBook)

Paul Delaney is Lecturer in Irish Writing in English at Trinity College, Dublin Michael Parker is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire

Introduction Paul Delaney and Michael Parker
Part One
1. Learnt by heart: William Trevor and reading – Hermione Lee
2. In another country: aspects of Trevor’s England – George O’Brien
3. ‘Compassion thrown to the winds’: William Trevor and postcolonial London – C.L. Innes
4. ‘The battlefield has never quietened’: political violence in the fiction of William Trevor – Elmer Kennedy-Andrews
5. William Trevor’s screen fictions: ‘No interest. Not suitable for treatment’ – Lance Pettitt
Part Two
6. The Ireland that we dreamed of?: ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ – Tina O’Toole
7. ‘Moments and subtleties and shadows of grey’: reflections on the narrative mode of Fools of Fortune Michael O'Neill
8. ‘Bid me strike a match and blow’: The Silence in the Garden Derek Hand
9. The tragedy of the return of history: ‘Lost Ground’ Jennifer M. Jeffers
10. The power of withholding: politics, gender and narrative technique in Felicia’s Journey – Michael Parker
11. ‘... as if she were a symbol of something ...’: The Story of Lucy Gault – Tom Herron
12. ‘The art of the glimpse’: Cheating at Canasta Paul Delaney
13. Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer – Heidi Hansson
Bibliography and filmography
Index