Iris Murdoch

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Early Life

   • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

   Pages 1-13

3. After the War

   • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

   Pages 14-35

4. Triangles and Polygons

   • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

   Pages 36-57

5. Ireland

   • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

   Pages 58-70

6. New Directions, Constant Themes

   • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

   Pages 71-91

7. The Love Machine

   • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

   Pages 92-116

8. Retreats and Returns

   • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

   Pages 117-134

9. The Late Novels

   • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

   Pages 135-162

10. Afterlife

    • Priscilla Martin, Anne Rowe

    Pages 163-171

11. Back Matter

    Pages 172-202

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This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and work since her death in 1999.

• bibliography
• chronology
• death
• Ireland
• knowledge
• love
• media
• novel
• triangle
• British and Irish Literature

'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

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.

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