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Middlebrow Wodehouse: P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context

Autor Ann Rea
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 dec 2015
While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, attending to his self-conscious relationship to the literary marketplace and his role in moving musical comedy away from vaudeville’s lowbrow associations towards the sophistication of the Wodehouse style. The focus on the middlebrow creates a critical context for serious critical consideration of Wodehouse’s linguistic playfulness and his depictions of social class within England. The contributors explore Wodehouse’s fiction and libretti in reference to philosophy, depictions of masculinity, World War I Britain, the periodical market, ideas of Englishness, and cultural phenomena such as men’s fashion, food culture, and popular songwriting. Taken together, the essays draw attention to the arbitrary divide between high- and middlebrow culture and make a case for Wodehouse as a writer whose games with language are in keeping with modernist experimentation with artistic expression.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472454485
ISBN-10: 1472454480
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Ann Rea is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA.

Cuprins

Introduction to Middlebrow Wodehouse; 1: Know Your Audience; 2: Reading Up or Curling Up with a Book; 3: Before Jeeves; 4: P.G. Wodehouse and the First World War; 5: The Prison Camp as Public School; 6: The Place of the Pig; 7: P.G. Wodehouse and the American Musical Comedy; 8: Wooster the Musician; 9: Philosophy with a Smile; 10: ‘A Fairly Unclouded Life’; 11: The Queer Domesticity of Bertie and Jeeves; 12: Problematic Menswear in P.G. Wodehouse and Dornford Yates; 13: In the Soup

Descriere

Re-examining P.G. Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, this collection attends to his self-conscious relationship to the literary marketplace and his role in moving musical comedy away from vaudeville’s lowbrow associations towards the sophistication of the Wodehouse style. Taken together, the essays draw attention to the arbitrary divide between high- and middlebrow culture and place Wodehouse’s writing in the context of modernist experimentation with artistic expression.