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Barbara Pym

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Michael Cotsell
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Part of the book series: Modern Novelists (MONO)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Michael Cotsell
    Pages 1-8

  3. Oswestry and Oxford: Early Writings, Literary Influences, and Some Tame Gazelle

    • Michael Cotsell
    Pages 9-27

  4. Towards War: Crampton Hodnet and the Unpublished Novels

    • Michael Cotsell
    Pages 28-44

  5. The Comedies

    • Michael Cotsell
    Pages 45-83

  6. Transition

    • Michael Cotsell
    Pages 84-114

  7. Language and Loneliness: The Late Novels

    • Michael Cotsell
    Pages 115-138

  8. The Critical Reception

    • Michael Cotsell
    Pages 139-146

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 147-153
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Out of routine and small moments of modest, unfulfilled lives, Barbara Pym created a fine and sensitive comedy that delicately catches the way we sustain interest in our own lives and those of others, grow and are illuminated, and bear with loneliness and age. This study shows the perceptiveness of her sexual comedy and her awareness of social change, as well as her subtle and sophisticated use of language and narrative form. Michael Cotsell places Pym among the great explorers of human value in the modern world.

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