Passions of the Mind Selected Essays Author:A. S. Byatt Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed to the alli... more »ance of literature and life.
Still life --
"Sugar" --
Robert Browning --
George Eliot --
George Eliot's essays --
Accurate letters : Ford Madox Ford --
"Omnipotence of thought" : Frazer, Freud and post-modernist fiction --
People in paper houses : attitudes to "Realism and "Experiment" in English post-war fiction --