Muriel Spark / Edited by David Herman. [electronic resource] /

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Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 were originally published in the Fall 2008 issue of Modern Fiction Studies.

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Part I. Spark as Scottish and World Author -- Part II. Situating Spark in Postwar Culture -- Part III. Reading Spark.

“Fully to Savour Her Position”: Muriel Spark and Scottish Identity -- “The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World”: Muriel Spark and the New Yorker -- Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and Psychosis -- Muriel Spark and the Meaningof Treason -- Reading Spark in the Age of Suspicion -- Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the Object -- The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic Gag -- “Her Lips Are Slightly Parted”: The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat -- “Look for One Thing and You Find Another”: The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento Mori -- Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with Intent.

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