Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow. He writes on both Renaissance and Scottish literature, most recently Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2002), Muriel Spark for Starters (2009). Edited collections include, with Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare and Scotland (2004) and, with Alex Benchimol, Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Politics from Shakespeare to Habermas (2006).

This volume provides a number of innovative critical perspectives on Spark's fiction, whilst engaging in lively debate with previous Spark criticism.

• Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Muriel Spark; Introduction, Michael Gardiner and Willy Maley; 1 Muriel Spark and the Problems of Biography, David Goldie; 2 Poetic Perception in the Fiction of Muriel Spark, Vassiliki Kolocotroni; 3 Body and State in Spark's Early Fiction, Michael Gardiner; 4 The Stranger Spark, Marilyn Reizbaum; 5 Muriel Spark and the Politics of the Contemporary, Adam Piette; 6 Spark, modernism and postmodernism, Matthew Wickman; 7 Muriel Spark as Catholic Novelist, Gerard Carruthers; 8 Muriel Spark's Break with Romanticism, Paddy Lyons; 9 The Post-war Contexts of Spark's Writing, Randall Stevenson; 10 Muriel Spark's Crimes of Wit, Drew Milne; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow. He writes on both Renaissance and Scottish literature, most recently Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2002), Muriel Spark for Starters (2009). Edited collections include, with Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare and Scotland (2004) and, with Alex Benchimol, Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Politics from Shakespeare to Habermas (2006).

This volume provides a number of innovative critical perspectives on Spark's fiction, whilst engaging in lively debate with previous Spark criticism.

• Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Muriel Spark; Introduction, Michael Gardiner and Willy Maley; 1 Muriel Spark and the Problems of Biography, David Goldie; 2 Poetic Perception in the Fiction of Muriel Spark, Vassiliki Kolocotroni; 3 Body and State in Spark's Early Fiction, Michael Gardiner; 4 The Stranger Spark, Marilyn Reizbaum; 5 Muriel Spark and the Politics of the Contemporary, Adam Piette; 6 Spark, modernism and postmodernism, Matthew Wickman; 7 Muriel Spark as Catholic Novelist, Gerard Carruthers; 8 Muriel Spark's Break with Romanticism, Paddy Lyons; 9 The Post-war Contexts of Spark's Writing, Randall Stevenson; 10 Muriel Spark's Crimes of Wit, Drew Milne; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Michael Gardiner is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow. He writes on both Renaissance and Scottish literature, most recently Nation, State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (2002), Muriel Spark for Starters (2009). Edited collections include, with Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare and Scotland (2004) and, with Alex Benchimol, Spheres of Influence: Intellectual and Cultural Politics from Shakespeare to Habermas (2006).

This volume provides a number of innovative critical perspectives on Spark's fiction, whilst engaging in lively debate with previous Spark criticism.

• Series Editors' Preface; Brief Biography of Muriel Spark; Introduction, Michael Gardiner and Willy Maley; 1 Muriel Spark and the Problems of Biography, David Goldie; 2 Poetic Perception in the Fiction of Muriel Spark, Vassiliki Kolocotroni; 3 Body and State in Spark's Early Fiction, Michael Gardiner; 4 The Stranger Spark, Marilyn Reizbaum; 5 Muriel Spark and the Politics of the Contemporary, Adam Piette; 6 Spark, modernism and postmodernism, Matthew Wickman; 7 Muriel Spark as Catholic Novelist, Gerard Carruthers; 8 Muriel Spark's Break with Romanticism, Paddy Lyons; 9 The Post-war Contexts of Spark's Writing, Randall Stevenson; 10 Muriel Spark's Crimes of Wit, Drew Milne; Endnotes; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.