Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing: Writing in the Wings

ISBN-13: 9781032092164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Graham Wolfe

Opis

Theatre-Fiction in Britain presents theatre-fiction as one of the past century’s most vital means of exploring, reconsidering, and bringing forth theatre’s potentials.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Writing in the Wings

2. Henry James and Stage-Frightened Theatre-Fiction in the Fin de Siècle

3. Somerset Maugham’s Theatre for the Lonely Reader

4. Virginia Woolf as Theatre-Novelist: Upstaging the Human

5. Death by Actor: Ngaio Marsh and Backstage Detective Fiction

6. J. B. Priestley: Theatre-Fiction, Work, and Time

7. Angela Carter’s Theatrical Desire

8. Doris Lessing and Loving Theatre, Again

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O autorze

Graham Wolfe holds a PhD in Drama from the University of Toronto and is an Assistant Professor in English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. His articles on theatre, novels, and popular culture have appeared in journals including Performance Research, Mosaic, Modern Drama, Dickens Quarterly, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.