Isherwood Century Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood

Name: Isherwood Century Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood
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ISBN: 9780299167004

ISBN-10: 0299167003

ISBN-13: 9780299167004

Edition: 2000

Authors: James J. Berg, Chris Freeman, Armistead Maupin

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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 3/23/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Isherwood Century




Meeting Isherwood



Who Is Christopher Isherwood?




Isherwood in Los Angeles




In the Blink of an Eye: Evolving with Christopher Isherwood




Ish circa 1959-1963




Reading from Isherwood's Letter circa 1959-1963




Gay Isherwood Visits Straight Riverside




My Isherwood, My Bachardy




"Write It Down or It's Lost": Isherwood as Mentor




Artist and Companion



A Life Open to Art




Portrait of the Artist as Companion: Interviews with Don Bachardy




Frankenstein: The True Story: The Artist as "Monster"




Pool in Rocks by the Sea: Isherwood and Bachardy




Deathwatch




The Writer in Context



Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and Anti-Ancestral Impulses in The Memorial




In a Populous City: Isherwood in the Thirties




The Dog beneath the Schoolboy's Skin: Isherwood, Auden, and Fascism




Documentary Dilemmas: Shifting Fronts in Journey to a War




Strategically Minor: Isherwood's Revision of Forster's Mythology




A Single Man, Then and Now




Isherwood and the Violet Quill




Finding a Path



Christopher under the Wishing Tree




Christopher Isherwood in Jail




"Always Dance": Sex and Salvation in Isherwood's Vedantism




The Path That Leads to Safety: Spiritual Renewal and Autobiographical Narrative




"The Wandering Stopped": An Interview with Christopher Isherwood



Bibliography


Contributors


Index