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

ISBN-13: 9780367346744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 302 str.

Ann Rea

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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