Show Notes
In this episode Miles is joined by Gillian Dooley (Flinders University, Australia) and Daniel Read (Kingston University, UK) to celebrate the Twentieth Anniversary of 'From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch', a collection of interviews with Murdoch from across her career, as well as to discuss the wealth of unpublished interview and conversational material in the Kingston Archive. We discuss what we can learn about her works but, perhaps more enticingly, the woman behind them.
Until the end of 2023 the collection is half price from the publisher using code JHOL23.
https://uscpress.com/From-a-Tiny-Corner-in-the-House-of-Fiction
Gillian Dooley is an Honorary Associate Professor in English literature at Flinders University, South Australia. She has published widely on various literary and historical topics, including Jane Austen, Iris Murdoch, J.M. Coetzee, V.S. Naipaul, and the maritime explorer Matthew Flinders. Her latest monograph is Listening to Iris Murdoch: Music, Sounds, and Silences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and her book She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music is due out from Manchester University Press in 2024.
Daniel Read teaches and researches at the University of Kingston, UK. He is an editor of the Iris Murdoch Review and his first monograph, The Problem of Evil in the Fiction and Philosophy of Iris Murdoch is due to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in the 'Iris Murdoch Today' series in 2024.
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