Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Chronology; 1 Critical and cultural contexts; 2 Small worlds: Union Street; 3 Whoever fights monsters: Blow Your House Down; 4 Telling stories: The Century's Daughter (Liza's England); 5 Searching for heroes: The Man Who Wasn't There; 6 History and haunting: The Regeneration Trilogy; 7 The return of history: Another World; 8 Redemption: Border Crossing and Double Vision; 9 Critical overview and conclusion; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

About the Author

John Brannigan is Senior Lecturer in English at University College Dublin

Reviews

''This is a lucidly written and thoughtfully argued book that makes a case for Barker's 'critical realism' and for the idea of a 'negative epic' as a key feature of her fiction. Discussion of time, memory and history animates the study and careful attention is paid to the novels' formal characteristics. Brannigan's is the best reading of 'Union Street' to date and when he discusses imagery (as in the animal imagery in 'Border Crossing') he opens up the texts in revealing ways."--Sharon Monteith, University of Nottingham.""