Loitering with Intent (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Spark
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: The autumn of 1949 to the summer of 1950
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Fleur Talbot, Sir Quentin Oliver, Lady Edwina, Mrs. Beryl Tims, Leslie, Dottie, Solly Mendelsohn, Revisson Doe, Cynthia Somerville, Lady Bernice “Bucks” Gilbert, Sir Eric Findlay, Miss Maisie Young, Father Egbert Delaney
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Freedom, Philosophy or philosophers, Power, personal or social, Suicide, Authors or writers, Literature, Autobiography, Art or artists, 1940’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Obsession, Novelists, England or English people, Adultery, Truth, Greed, Creative process, London, Truthfulness and falsehood, Theft
- Locales: London, England
Form and Content
“How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century,” rejoices narrator-author Fleur Talbot in Loitering with Intent; however, in this novel, author Muriel Spark goes beyond a paean to her gender and profession to challenge both social mores and patriarchal writing conventions. In order to achieve that end, Spark writes an autobiography describing her early life as a writer in the form of an amusing novel.
In the middle of the twentieth century, author-narrator Fleur Talbot is writing a novel entitled Warrender...
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