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Piazza takes a close look at the intensely personal world of Isherwood's nine novels, examining the anti-mythic elements at the foundation of this ironist's oeuvre: the revolt against his mother, the rejection of his hero-father, destroyed by the senseless heoism of the Great War, and Isherwood's homosexual rebellion against the heterosexual dictatorship of the state, the church, the law, and the press.

"Suggesting that the literary world is just beginning to realize the extent of Anthony Powell's achievements, Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns adds...

Jean Rhys is an accessible and up-to-date analysis of Rhys's career. Sanford Sternlicht presents the link between Rhys's life and her work, demonstrating how the two intertwine. Beginning with a biographical and personality sketch, this book looks at some of the problems Rhys faced in her professional and personal life and how they are projected in her writing. Sternlicht evaluates Rhys's published work in chronological order, demonstrating her stylistic...