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Margaret Drabble, Paperback / softback Book

Margaret Drabble Paperback / softback

Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction series

Paperback / softback

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Margaret Drabble is a writer who plays a lively role in both popular and literary culture.

Widely read and studied throughout the world her novels attract both the general reader and the literary critic. Originally published in 1985, Joanne Creighton examines this phenomenon and places particular emphasis on her "Englishness", her role as a woman writing credibly about modern women and her ability to mediate between the traditional and the modern.

She argues that the resonances of Drabble’s work grow put of her strong sense of the powers and resources of existing literary traditions coupled with her intelligent portrayal of the familiar problems of people in modern society, and that is precisely this mediating position which makes Drabble an important voice in contemporary fiction and links her with other writers of her generation.

Challenging those critics who see Drabble as a fiction traditionalist.

Creighton finds her work open-ended, inquiring, equivocal and unquestionably contemporary in spirit.

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