Signs and Wonders - Essays on Literature and Culture

This resonant collection draws together essays written over 25 years, offerning a wide-ranging retrospective of her developing ideas. Whether writing on Vietnam, Mrs Thatcher, the dollar sign and the twin towers, Queen Elizabeth I and incest, weeping Madonnas, zombies or fairytales, Warner displays a rare gift for blending historical and anthropological insights with deft and perceptive readings on individual works...