Iris Murdoch

Anne Rowe is Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester and Emeritus Research Fellow at Kingston University, where she was Associate Professor and Director of the Iris Murdoch Archive Project (2004-2016).

‘The leading Murdoch scholar Anne Rowe, in an effective new critical study, emphasises the relevance to Murdoch’s future reputation of society’s increasing openness to “more complex variations in sexual and psychological make-up”. The old myth that Murdoch only writes about leisured middle-class heterosexuals who live in big houses has in turn bred the more recent myth that nobody could possibly bother reading her nowadays...’Leo Robson, The New Statesman

• Introduction 1 Iris Murdoch: A Writing Life 2 Writing the Novel of Ideas: The Philosopher and Public Intellectual 3 Writing Sacraments: The Holy Atheist 4 Writing A New Vocabulary of Experience 5 Writing the Landscape: The Island of Spells and the Sacred City Afterword