Publisher's Synopsis
The essays collected in this volume offer a range of different approaches to the significance of the work of Margaret Laurence, historical, feminist, descriptive and thematic, in which critics from Europe, America and Canada offer assessments of this 20th century novelist.;Colin Nicholson has also edited "Tropic Crucible: Self and Theory in Language and Literature (co-editor) and "Alexander Pope: Essays for the Tercentenary".