Iris Murdoch - (Literary Lives) by P Martin & Anne Rowe

Book Synopsis

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most popular and productive English novelists of the twentieth century. This Literary Life not only concentrates on her fiction but also places it in the contexts of her personal and professional life and the political and cultural developments which it reflects and addresses.

Review Quotes

'This is a comprehensive and accessible study, a first-class resource for students, researchers and readers interested in Iris Murdoch's work and literary life'

Bran Nicol, Reader in English, University of Portsmouth, UK

About the Author

PRISCILLA MARTIN teaches English Literature and Classics at the University of Oxford, UK. She has also taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, London, Colorado, California, Washington and Hawaii. She has published on Chaucer, Piers Plowman, the Gawain-poet, Tyndale, Shakespeare, Iris Murdoch and other twentieth-century novelists.

ANNE ROWE is Director of the Centre of Iris Murdoch Studies at Kingston University, UK and Lead Editor of the Iris Murdoch Review. She has published widely on Iris Murdoch, most recently co-authoring Sacred Space, Beloved City: Iris Murdoch's London with Cheryl Bove and co-editing Iris Murdoch and Morality with Avril Horner.