Nicolas Tredell
Nicolas Tredell's latest book is an edited volume of original
essays on In Cold Blood in the Salem Press Critical
Insights series (2020). His previous books include: Critical
Insights: The Kite Runner (2020); Critical Insights:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2020); Anatomy of Amis: (2017),
the most comprehensive study so far of the fiction and nonfiction
of Martin Amis; a new and expanded edition of Conversations
with Critics (2015), featuring his interviews with John
Barrell, Catherine Belsey, Bernard Bergonzi, Christine Brooke-Rose,
David Caute, Brian Cox, Donald Davie, Terry Eagleton, Stephen
Heath, Robert Hewison, Philip Hobsbaum, Lisa Jardine, Sir Frank
Kermode, Colin MacCabe, Karl Miller, Sir Roger Scruton, C. H.
Sisson, George Steiner, Raymond Tallis and Dame Marina Warner;
Novels to Some Purpose: The Fiction of Colin Wilson
(2015); Analysing Texts: David Copperfield and
Great Expectations (2013); C. P. Snow: The Dynamics of
Hope (2012); Analysing Texts: The Great Gatsby
and Tender is the Night (2011); The Great Gatsby: A
Continuum Reader's Guide (2007); Cinemas of the Mind: A
Critical History of Film Theory (2002); Fighting Fictions:
The Novels of B. S. Johnson (2000; 2nd edn, 2010); Caute's
Confrontations: The Novels of David Caute (1994); The
Critical Decade: Culture in Crisis (1993); and Uncancelled
Challenge: The Work of Raymond Williams (1990).
From 1999 to 2021, he was Consultant Editor of the Palgrave
Macmillan Essential Criticism Guides series, which now numbers over
90 volumes, eight of which he has himself produced: The Great
Gatsby (1997); Great Expectations (1998); Heart
of Darkness (1998); The Sound and the Fury/As I Lay
Dying (1999); The Fiction of Martin Amis (2000);
Macbeth (2006); A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010);
and Shakespeare - The Tragedies (2014).
He is the co-founder and co-director, with Angela Tredell, of
Tredellian Press, a micro-entity that has published twenty fiction
and nonfiction pamphlets to date and plans to publish five more in
2023.
He has also published over 450 essays, articles, interviews,
introductions and obituaries in English and American books,
journals and newspapers.
Nicolas was contributing editor of PN Review from
1983-9, and a judge of the 1994 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for
Poetry and of the 2016 English and Media Centre Close Reading
Competition. He co-organized the Literary London Society
Conferences on "Conflict and Resolution" (2018) and "Neighbours of
Ours" (2019).
Nicolas's homepage is http://nicolastredell.co.uk
