David Herman is a professor of English at the Ohio State University. He has published widely on narrative theory, modern and postmodern fiction, and storytelling across media.

"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years." - Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh"

• PrefaceIntroduction Part I: Spark as Scottish and World AuthorChapter 1. "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish IdentityChapter 2. "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World": Muriel Spark and the New YorkerPart II: Situating Spark in Postwar CultureChapter 3. Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and PsychosisChapter 4. Muriel Spark and the Meaning of TreasonChapter 5. Reading Spark in the Age of SuspicionChapter 6. Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the ObjectPart III: Reading SparkChapter 7. The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic GagChapter 8. "Her Lips Are Slightly Parted": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's SeatChapter 9. "Look for One Thing and You Find Another": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento MoriChapter 10. Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with IntentAppendix: A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel SparkContributorsIndex

David Herman is a professor of English at the Ohio State University. He has published widely on narrative theory, modern and postmodern fiction, and storytelling across media.

"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years." - Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh"

• PrefaceIntroduction Part I: Spark as Scottish and World AuthorChapter 1. "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish IdentityChapter 2. "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World": Muriel Spark and the New YorkerPart II: Situating Spark in Postwar CultureChapter 3. Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and PsychosisChapter 4. Muriel Spark and the Meaning of TreasonChapter 5. Reading Spark in the Age of SuspicionChapter 6. Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the ObjectPart III: Reading SparkChapter 7. The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic GagChapter 8. "Her Lips Are Slightly Parted": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's SeatChapter 9. "Look for One Thing and You Find Another": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento MoriChapter 10. Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with IntentAppendix: A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel SparkContributorsIndex

David Herman is a professor of English at the Ohio State University. He has published widely on narrative theory, modern and postmodern fiction, and storytelling across media.

"A substantial addition to Spark criticism, of which there has been surprisingly little published in recent years." - Aileen Christianson, University of Edinburgh"

• PrefaceIntroduction Part I: Spark as Scottish and World AuthorChapter 1. "Fully to Savour Her Position": Muriel Spark and Scottish IdentityChapter 2. "The Magazine That Is Considered the Best in the World": Muriel Spark and the New YorkerPart II: Situating Spark in Postwar CultureChapter 3. Muriel Spark and the Metaphysics of Modernity: Art, Secularization, and PsychosisChapter 4. Muriel Spark and the Meaning of TreasonChapter 5. Reading Spark in the Age of SuspicionChapter 6. Stylish Spinsters: Spark, Pym, and the Postwar Comedy of the ObjectPart III: Reading SparkChapter 7. The Mandelbaum Gate: Muriel Spark's Apocalyptic GagChapter 8. "Her Lips Are Slightly Parted": The Ineffability of Erotic Sociality in Muriel Spark's The Driver's SeatChapter 9. "Look for One Thing and You Find Another": The Voice and Deduction in Muriel Spark's Memento MoriChapter 10. Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with IntentAppendix: A Bibliography of Recent Criticism on Muriel SparkContributorsIndex