Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction, Lucy Le-Guilcher and Phyllis Lassner; Part 1 Rumer Godden's India: The view from the middle: Godden and her literary landscape, Mary Grover; 'Far more remote than it actually is': Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus and 1930s mountain writing, Mark Rawlinson; In search of Rumer Godden's India, Gayathri Prabhu; Questions of 'mixed race' in The Lady and the Unicorn and The Peacock Spring, Elizabeth Maslen. Part 2 Godden and British Culture: An experiment with narrative? Rumer Godden's A Fugue in Time, Victoria Stewart; A child's perspective: the reconstruction of the domestic sphere in The Doll's House and Impunity Jane, Lucy Le-Guilcher; Imagining gypsies: growing up in Gypsy, Gypsy and The Diddakoi, Rod Mengham; China Court: Rumer Godden's epic of the English novel, Phyllis Lassner. Part 3 Sexuality and Longing: Childhood, longing, sexuality, violence and sacrifice in Rumer Godden's The River, An Episode of Sparrows, and The Greengage Summer, Philip Tew; Sweetness and darkness: realism in Rumer Godden's novels, Tessa Hadley. Part 4 Rumer Godden's Life and Career: Rumer Godden: a sense of performance and poetry, Anne Harvey; 'A born storyteller': clips from the interviews, Clare Jenkins; 'Sometimes': a daughter's reflections, Jane Murray Flutter; Bibliography; Index.