| Author/Contributor(s): | Baxter, Jeannette ; Mitchell, Kaye ; Childs, Peter ; Groes, Sebastian |
| Publisher: | Continuum |
| Date: | 09/01/2011 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
Foreword \ Series Editors' Preface \ Acknowledgements \ Contributors \ Chronology of Julian Barnes's Life \ Introduction: Julian Barnes and the Wisdom of Uncertainity Sebastian Groes and Peter Childs \ 1. The Flâneur and the Freeholder: Paris and London in Metroland Matthew Taunton \ 2. Inventing a Way to the Truth: Life and Fiction in Flaubert's Parrot Ryan Roberts \ 3. 'A preference for things Gallic': Julian Barnes and the French Connection Vanessa Guignery \ 4. 'An Ordinary Piece of Magic': Religion in the Work of Julian Barnes Andrew Tate \ 5. Crossing the Channel: Europe and the Three Uses of France in Julian Barnes's Talking it Over Merritt Moseley \ 6. 'Stranger Than Fiction': an epistolary essay on The Porcupine Dimitrina Kondeva \ 7. England, England and Englishness Richard Bradford \ 8. Matters of Life and Death: The Short Stories of Julian Barnes Peter Childs \ 9. 'All Letters Quoted are Authentic': The Past after Postmodern Fabulation in Julian Barnes's Arthur & George Christine Berberich \ Afterword Andrew Lycett \ References \ Further Reading \ Index