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William Trevor

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

List of abbreviations

Introduction: Paul Delaney and Michael Parker

Part One

1. Learnt by heart: William Trevor and reading: Hermione Lee

2. In another country: aspects of Trevor’s England: George O’Brien

3. ‘Compassion thrown to the winds’: William Trevor and postcolonial London: C.L. Innes

4. ‘The battlefield has never quietened’: political violence in the fiction of William Trevor: Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

5. William Trevor’s screen fictions: ‘No interest.Not suitable for treatment’: Lance Pettitt

Part Two

6. The Ireland that we dreamed of?: ‘The Ballroom of Romance’: Tina O’Toole

7. ‘Moments and subtleties and shadows of grey’: reflections on the narrative mode of Fools of Fortune: Michael O’Neill

8. ‘Bid me strike a match and blow’: The Silence in the Garden: Derek Hand

9. The tragedy of the return of history: ‘Lost Ground’: Jennifer M. Jeffers

10. The power of withholding: politics, gender and narrative technique in Felicia’s Journey: Michael Parker

11. ‘… as if she were a symbol of something …’: The Story of Lucy Gault: Tom Herron

12. ‘The art of the glimpse’: Cheating at Canasta: Paul Delaney

13. Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer

Bibliography and filmography

Index