Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan (*1948) is an English novelist and screenwriter.
The following list of texts, especially as far as the secondary literature is concerned, is only the tip of the iceberg. Ian McEwan has been generating a lot of interest; for extensive bibliographies, see the volumes edited by Sebastian Groes and Dominic Head.
Fiction (in Chronological Order)
First Love, Last Rites (1975; Dublin: Vintage, 2023).
- ‘Solid Geometry’
- ‘Homemade’
- ‘Last Day of Summer’
- ‘Cocker at the Theatre’
- ‘Butterflies’
- ‘Conversation with a Cupboard Man’
- ‘First Love, Last Rites’
- ‘Disguises’
The Cement Garden (1978; London: Vintage, 2016).
In Between the Sheets (1978; London: Vintage, 2006).
- ‘Pornography’
- ‘Reflections of a Kept Ape’
- ‘Two Fragments: Saturday and Sunday, March 199-‘
- ‘Dead as They Come’
- ‘In Between the Sheets’
- ‘To and Fro’
- ‘Psychopolis’
The Comfort of Strangers (1981; London: Vintage, 2006).
The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television (1981; London: Picador, 1982).
- ‘Jack Flea’s Birthday Celebration’
- ‘Solid Geometry’
- ‘The Imitation Game’
The Child in Time (1987; London: Vintage, 2016).
A Move Abroad: or Shall We Die? and The Ploughman’s Lunch (London: Picador, 1989).
- ‘or Shall We Die? Words for an Oratory Set to Music by Michael Berkeley’
- ‘The Ploughman’s Lunch: An Original Screenplay’
The Innocent (1990; Dublin: Vintage, 2023).
Black Dogs (1992; London: Vintage, 1998).
The Daydreamer (1994; London: Vintage, 1995).
*Enduring Love (1997; London: Vintage, 1998).
*Amsterdam (1998; London: Vintage, 2016).
*Atonement (2001; London: Vintage, 2007).
Saturday (2005; London: Vintage, 2006).
On Chesil Beach (2007; London: Vintage, 2008).
For You: The Libretto for Michael Berkeley’s Opera (London: Vintage, 2008).
Solar (2010; London: Vintage, 2011).
*Sweet Tooth (2012; London: Vintage, 2013).
*The Children Act (2014; London: Vintage, 2017).
Nutshell (2016; London: Vintage, 2017).
My Purple Scented Novel (2016; London: Vintage, 2018).
Machines Like Me (2019; London: Vintage, 2020).
The Cockroach (London: Vintage, 2019).
Lessons (2022; Dublin: Vintage, 2023).
Books about Ian McEwan (in Alphabetical Order)
*Groes, Sebastian (ed.), Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives (2nd edn, London: Bloomsbury, 2013).
- Matt Ridley, Foreword: Ian McEwan and the Rational Mind
- Sebastian Groes, ‘A Cartography of the Contemporary: Mapping Newness in the Work of Ian McEwan’
- Jeannette Baxter, ‘Surrealist Encounters in Ian McEwan’s Early Work’
- M. Hunter Hayes, ‘ “Profoundly Dislocating and Infinite Possibility”: Ian McEwan’s Screenwriting’
- Claire Colebook, ‘The Innocent as Anti-Oedipal Critique of Cultural Pornography’
- Natasha Alden, ‘Words of War, War of Words: Atonement and the Question of Plagiarism’
- Alistair Cormack, ‘Postmodernism and the Ethics of Fiction in Atonement‘
- Laura Marcus, ‘Ian McEwan’s Modernist Time: Atonement and Saturday‘
- Sebastian Groes, ‘Ian McEwan and the Modernist Consciousness of the City in Saturday‘
- Dominic Head, ‘On Chesil Beach: Another “Overrated” Novella?’
- Greg Garrad, ‘Solar: Apocalypse Not’
- Ian McEwan, ‘ “Untitled”: A Minute Story’
- Peter Childs, ‘Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth: “Put in Porphyry and Marble Do Appear”‘
- Jon Cook, Sebastian Groes and Victor Sage, ‘Journeys without Maps: An Interview with Ian McEwan’
Head, Dominic (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ian McEwan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
- Dominic Head, Introduction
- Eluned Summers-Bremner, ‘ “Shock Lit”: The Early Fiction’
- Lynn Wells, ‘Moral Dilemmas’
- Astrid Bracke, ‘Science and Climate Crisis’
- Michael Lemahieu, ‘The Novel of Ideas’
- Richard Brown, ‘Cold War Fiction’
- Peter Childs, ‘The Construction of Childhood’
- David Malcolm, ‘The Public and the Private’
- Ben Knights, ‘Masculinities’
- Dominic Head, ‘The Novellas’
- Judith Seaboyer, ‘Realist Legacies’
- Thom Dancer, ‘Limited Modernism’
- David James, ‘Narrative Artifice’
Sigla
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