Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2001.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-285) and index.
- Illustrations — Foreword / Armistead Maupin — Acknowledgements — Introduction: the Isherwood century / James J. Berg and Chris Freeman — Who is Christopher Isherwood? / Katherine Bucknell — Isherwood in Los Angeles / Dan Luckenbill — In the blink of an eye: evolving with Christopher Isherwood / Stathis Orphanos — Ish circa 1959-1963 / Michael S. Harper — Reading from Isherwood’s letter circa 1959-1963 / Michael S. Harper — Gay Isherwood visits straight Riverside / Robert Peters — My Isherwood, my Bachardy / Carolyn G. Heilbrun — Write it down or it’s lost : Isherwood as mentor / James P. White — A life open to art / Don Bachardy — Portrait of the artist as companion: interviews with Don Bachardy / Niladri R. Chatterjee — Frankenstein: the true story: the artist as monster / Katharine M. Morsberger and Robert E. Morsberger — Pool in rocks by the sea: Isherwood and Bachardy / Edmund White — Deathwatch / Donald N. Mager — Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and anti-ancestral impulses in The memorial / James Kelley — In a populous city: Isherwood in the thirties / Antony Shuttleworth — The dog beneath the schoolboy’s skin: Isherwood, Auden, and fascism / William Ostrem — Documentary dilemmas: Shifting fronts in Journey to a war / Marsha Bryant — Strategically minor: Isherwood’s revision of Forter’s Mythology / Stephen da Silva — A single man, then and now / David Garnes — Isherwood and the Violet Quill / David Bergman — Christopher under the wishing tree / P. Shneidre — Christopher Isherwood in jail / David Garrett Izzo — Always dance : Sex and salvation in Isherwood’s vedantism / John McFarland — The path that leads to safety: Spiritual renewal and autobiographical narrative / Mario Faraone — The wandering stopped : An interview with Christopher Isherwood / Carola M. Kaplan — Bibliography — Contributors — Index.
- Best known for Goodbye to Berlin – the inspiration for the Tony and Oscar award-winning musical Cabaret – Christopher Isherwood has always been considered both a literary and a gay pioneer. In The Isherwood Century, editors James J. Berg and Chris Freeman have gathered twenty-four essays and interviews on Christopher Isherwood’s life and work. The volume, the first of its kind on Isherwood, offers a fresh, in-depth view of the author, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence. –BOOK JACKET.
- Also issued online.
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