Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- The Fleshly Grail: First Love, Last Rites.- Underworld: In Between the Sheets.- A Nice Sleep: The Cement Garden.- The Desire to be a Victim: The Comfort of Strangers.- True Maturity: The Child in Time.- No Different From You: The Innocent.- Ca Suffit: Black Dogs.- Rationality is Its Own Kind of Innocence: Enduring Love.- Their Reasonable Laws: Amsterdam.- Storytelling as Self-justification: Atonement.- And Now, What Days Are These?: Saturday.- Notes.- Select Bibliography.- Index.
PETER CHILDS is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He has published widely on postcolonial and twentieth-century literature. His recent publications include Modernism (2000), Contemporary Novelists (2004), and Reading Fiction: Opening the Text (2001), the last two of which are also published by Palgrave Macmillan.
PETER CHILDS is Pro Vice Chancellor, Research and Scholarship at Newman University, UK. He has published widely on postcolonial and twentieth-century literature. His recent publications include Modernism (2000), Contemporary Novelists (2004), and Reading Fiction: Opening the Text (2001), the last two of which are also published by Palgrave Macmillan.
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