Posted on 4 May 2018
The theme was Academic Books by Women that Changed the World.
'It is a book of fundamental importance to the understanding of Beckett’s life, work, imagination and political sympathies. It revises our understanding of this iconic writer, and opens up a new appreciation of the relationship between literature and politics in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. It is an outstanding work of critical research and authoritative analysis from a young female scholar.' (Ray Ryan, Cambridge University Press, New York).