York, R.A. 1941–

PERSONAL:

Born January 8, 1941, in Kettering, England; son of Sidney (a mail carrier) and Gladys York; married Rosemary Berridge, June 26, 1973. Ethnicity: "European." Education: Emmanuel College, Cambridge, B.A.; University of London, Ph.D. Hobbies and other interests: Music, cinema, gardening.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Ulster, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, lecturer, 1969-2006.

WRITINGS:

The Poem as Utterance, Methuen (New York, NY), 1986.

Strangers and Secrets: Communication in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, Associated University Presses (Cranbury, NJ), 1994.

The Rules of Time: Time and Rhythm in the Twentieth-Century Novel, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ), 1999.

The Extension of Life: Fiction and History in the American Novel, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Madison, NJ), 2003.

Agatha Christie: Power and Illusion, Palgrave (Basingstoke, England), 2007.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Choice, November, 1994, J.W. Parins, review of Strangers and Secrets: Communication in the Nineteenth-Century Novel, p. 1994; October, 1999, R.F. Cayton, review of The Rules of Time: Time and Rhythm in the Twentieth-Century Novel.

Comparative Literature Studies, spring, 1989, Elizabeth Brunazzi, review of The Poem as Utterance, p. 183.

Review of English Studies, November, 2000, Rosemary Pountney, review of The Rules of Time, p. 679.

Times Literary Supplement, February 10, 1995, review of Strangers and Secrets, p. 28.