Rethinking Powys: Critical Essays on John Cowper Powys

by Jeremy Mark Robinson

JOHN COWPER POWYS

A new collection of essays on John Cowper Powys (1872-1963). H.W. Fawkner's essay "Venus" explores issues of reading, movement, love and sex, the 'amorous self', and affectivity in A Glastonbury Romance. Ian Hughes looks at the genre of Powys's novels, and how the philosophical romances were influenced by Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean. Janina Nordius discusses the crucial Powys theme of (transcendental) solitude in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861711670
• ISBN13: 9781861711670
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"