Ian McEwan's Enduring Love A Routledge Study Guide [Paperback]

Ian McEwan is one of Britain's most inventive and important contemporary writers. Also adapted as a film, his novel Enduring Love(1997) is a tale of obsession that has both troubled and enthralled readers around the world. Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of this haunting novel to offer:

• an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of Enduring Love
• a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present
• a selection of new and reprinted critical essays on Enduring Love, by Kiernan Ryan, Sean Matthews, Martin Randall, Paul Edwards, Rhiannon Davies and Peter Childs, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the survey section
• cross-references between sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
• suggestions for further reading.

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literatureseries, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Enduring Love and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.

Introduction  Part 1: Text and Contexts  The Text.  The Author.  Literary Contexts.  Cultural Contexts  Part 2: Critical History  Part 3: Critical Readings After the Fall Kiernan Ryan  'I Don't Want Your Story': Open and Fixed Narratives in Enduring Love Martin RandallEnduring McEwan Rhiannon Davies  Solipsism, Narrative and Love in Enduring Love Paul Edwards  Seven Types of Unreliability Sean Matthews &aml“Ô