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William Trevor Will iam Trevor Revaluations Edited by PAUL DELANEY and MICHAEL PARKER Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed in the United States exclusively by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN TTRREEVVOORR 997788007711990077990055 PPRRIINNTT..iinndddd iiiiii 0066//0088//22001133 1166::2200 Copyright © Manchester University Press 2013 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA Distributed in Canada exclusively by UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall, vancouver, BC, Canada v6T 1Z2 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for ISBN 978 07190 8790 5 hardback First published 2013 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third- party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset in 10.5/12.5 Adobe garamond by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire Printed in great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow For Finola and Aleksandra, Katie Rose and Joe Contents Acknowledgements page ix Notes on contributors xi List of abbreviations xv Introduction 1 Paul Delaney and Michael Parker Part One 1. Learnt by heart: William Trevor and reading 15 Hermione Lee 2. In another country: aspects of Trevor’s England 28 George O’Brien 3. ‘Compassion thrown to the winds’: William Trevor and postcolonial London 43 C.L. Innes 4. ‘The battlefield has never quietened’: political violence in the fiction of William Trevor 55 Elmer Kennedy-Andrews 5. William Trevor’s screen fictions: ‘No interest. Not suitable for treatment’ 76 Lance Pettitt viii Contents Part Two 6. The Ireland that we dreamed of?: ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ 95 Tina O’Toole 7. ‘Moments and subtleties and shadows of grey’: reflections on the narrative mode of Fools of Fortune 110 Michael O’Neill 8. ‘Bid me strike a match and blow’: The Silence in the Garden 125 Derek Hand 9. The tragedy of the return of history: ‘Lost ground’ 134 Jennifer M. Jeffers 10. The power of withholding: politics, gender and narrative technique in Felicia’s Journey 145 Michael Parker 11. ‘… as if she were a symbol of something …’: The Story of Lucy Gault 162 Tom Herron 12. ‘The art of the glimpse’: Cheating at Canasta 180 Paul Delaney 13. Character, community and critical nostalgia: Love and Summer 198 Heidi Hansson Bibliography and filmography 213 Index 223 Acknowledgements The Editors would like to thank formally our contributors and Matthew Frost of Manchester University Press for their commitment, responsiveness and patience throughout the project. We would also like to express our gratitude to the library staff at the National Library of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin and the British Library for their help, and to our work-colleagues for their support and forbearance. In relation to Lance Pettitt’s essay, permission is acknowledged to quote from BBC Written Archive Caversham (WAC), Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and the Irish Film Institute (IFI); to Kenith Trodd and William Trevor. Amongst those who generously helped to facilitate viewing audiovisual and print material were Brid Dooley and Liam Wylie at RTÉ Reference Library, Dublin, Johnson & Alcock London, Samantha Blake (WAC), Rebecca grant, Karen Wall and Sunniva O’Flynn at the IFI in Dublin and librarians at the British Film Institute, London. Michael Parker would like to thank Christine St Peter as well as New Hibernia Review’s editor, James Rogers, and its readers for their constructive comments, which enabled him to revise his essay. All images from The Ballroom of Romance are courtesy of © BBC/RTÉ 1982. The Editors are grateful to Barrie Cooke and the Irish Musuem of Modern Art for permission to reproduce ‘Couple’ as a cover image.
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