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Highlights
- Ann Quin's innovative, versatile oeuvre made a vital contribution to 1960s and '70s British experimental writing.
- About the Author: Nonia Williams is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.
- 200 Pages
- Literary Criticism, Feminist
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About the Book
This is the first full scholarly appraisal of the distinctive British experimental writer, Ann Quin.
Book Synopsis
Ann Quin's innovative, versatile oeuvre made a vital contribution to 1960s and '70s British experimental writing. While contemporaries praised her vivid and energetic prose, a sustained and in-depth study of Quin has so far been absent from scholarly reassessment of this literary era. As the first comprehensive appraisal of her writing and life, this book redresses that critical neglect, aims to recuperate Quin as a key female experimental writer of the twentieth century, shows how the precarious possibility of her writing is its essential attribute, and demonstrates the lasting importance of her work. Its combination of scholarly analysis and archival expertise investigates her life, writing and forms of experimentation to convey precisely what is striking and significant about Quin.
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The first full scholarly appraisal of the distinctive British avant-garde writer, Ann Quin Ann Quin's innovative, versatile oeuvre made a vital contribution to 1960s and 70s British experimental writing. While contemporaries praised her vivid and energetic prose, a sustained and in-depth study of Quin has so far been absent from scholarly re-assessment of this literary era. As the first comprehensive appraisal of her writing and life, this study redresses that critical neglect, recuperates Quin as a key female experimental writer of the twentieth century, shows how the precarious possibility of her writing is its essential attribute, and demonstrates the lasting importance of her work. Its convincing combination of scholarly analysis and archival expertise conveys precisely what is striking and significant about Quin. Nonia Williams is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. Recent publications include '(Re)turning to Quin: An Introduction' (2022) and British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s (EUP, 2019).Review Quotes
Nonia Williams' compelling argument secures Ann Quin's place among the pantheon of late 20th century experimental writers, particularly women writers. Lucidly written and organized, impeccably researched, with the advantage of Williams' access to Quin's letters, this book will interest scholars and students of modernism, feminism, women writers, and experimental literature.--Ellen Friedman, The College of New Jersey
About the Author
Nonia Williams is a Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia. Recent publications include '(Re)turning to Quin: An Introduction' in Women: A Cultural Review (2022); '"Designing its Own Shadow" tracing Ann Quin's reiterative experimental processes' (2021); 'About/Of Madness: Ann Quin's The Unmapped Country' in Textual Practice (2020) and British Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s (EUP, 2019).