Barry McCrea is from Dublin, Ireland. After a B.A. in Spanish and French at Trinity College, Dublin, he moved to the United States to do a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Princeton. He is currently associate professor of Comparative Literature at Yale. Besides In the Company of Strangers (Columbia, 2011), Barry McCrea is the author of novel, The First Verse (Carroll & Graf, 2005) and Minor Languages and the Modernist Literary Imagination (forthcoming from Yale in 2012).
The first paragraph in the Introduction is about a family memory which prompted the book in the first place.On page 11 I discuss fairytales looking at the problem of maturation and development without the promise of reproduction.I am proudest, as far as literary analysis goes, of the Proust chapter.What I most hope for as an outcome for the book is that readers will come away first with a deeper understanding and appreciation of Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce and Proust, but also questioning forms of narrative we take for granted as standard, and think about other ways we can make sense of time and of lives, other ways in which we can narrate the world.
Barry Mc Crea In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust Columbia University Press280 pages, 6 x 9 inches ISBN 978 0231157636
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