Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-325) and index.

"Rebecca West Today is the first-ever essay collection on this important twentieth-century artist and thinker. It is organized in a multidisciplinary fashion, with contributions grouped into four methodological concentrations: historicism, gender studies, textual analysis, and philosophical approaches. This procedure demonstrates that West's work is susceptible to a variety of approaches and critical methods, and it helps to identify a core of issues that interest scholars today. Significantly, critics are more than ever attracted to West's fiction, a trend that reverses the earlier tendency to disparage her novel and short stories in favor of her nonfiction.

Almost the entire corpus of West's fiction receives attention in this volume (with the exception of The Thinking Reed, which is in itself a telling fact)."--Jacket.

SACFinal081324