Passions of the mind :

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Byatt, A. S., 1936-, ((Antonia Susan),) Passions of the mind : selected writings / A.S. Byatt. - 1st U.S. ed.. - New York : Turtle Bay Books, 1992.
xvii, 332 p. ; 24 cm. Includes index. Content notes : Still life -- "Sugar" -- Robert Browning -- George Eliot -- George Eliot's essays -- Accurate letters : Ford Madox Ford -- "Omnipotence of thought" : Frazer, Freud and post-modernist fiction -- People in paper houses : attitudes to "Realism and "Experiment" in English post-war fiction -- William Golding : Darkness visible -- TLS poetry competition -- Sense of religion -- Willa Cather -- Elizabeth Bowen : the House in Paris -- Sylvia Plath : Letters home -- Toni Morrison : Beloved -- Honourable escape : Georgette Heyer -- Barbara Pym -- Monique Wittig : the lesbian body -- Coleridge : an Archangel a little damaged -- Charles Rycroft : the innocence of dreams -- Van Gogh, death and summer. 0679405119 9780679405115 * English literature - Criticism and interpretation. American literature - Criticism and interpretation.