Ann Rea

Middlebrow Wodehouse

P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780367346744
• ISBN-10: 0367346745
• Artikelnr.: 57004338

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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