The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood

by BERG JAMES J. (ED)

• ISBN13: 9780299167042
• ISBN10: 0299167046
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

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. That is truer now than ever. Readers of his plays, novels, and diaries continue to discover Isherwood's lasting contribution to twentieth-century culture, literature, autobiographical fiction, and memoir, to gay rights, and to twentieth-century culture.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction: The Isherwood Century	p. 3
Meeting Isherwood	p. 9
Who Is Christopher Isherwood?	p. 13
Isherwood in Los Angeles	p. 31
In the Blink of an Eye: Evolving with Christopher Isherwood	p. 43
Ish circa 1959-1963	p. 54
Reading from Isherwood's Letter circa 1959-1963	p. 61
Gay Isherwood Visits Straight Riverside	p. 65
My Isherwood, My Bachardy	p. 71
"Write It Down or It's Lost": Isherwood as Mentor	p. 77
Artist and Companion	p. 87
A Life Open to Art	p. 91
Portrait of the Artist as Companion: Interviews with Don Bachardy	p. 97
Frankenstein: The True Story: The Artist as "Monster"	p. 108
Pool in Rocks by the Sea: Isherwood and Bachardy	p. 121
Deathwatch	p. 128
The Writer in Context	p. 137
Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and Anti-Ancestral Impulses in The Memorial	p. 141
In a Populous City: Isherwood in the Thirities	p. 150
The Dog beneath the Schoolboy's Skin: Isherwood, Auden, and Fascism	p. 162
Documentary Dilemmas: Shifting Fronts in Journey to a War	p. 172
Strategically Minor: Isherwood's Revision of Forster's Mythology	p. 187
A Single Man, Then and Now	p. 196
Isherwood and the Violet Quill	p. 203
Finding a Path	p. 217
Christopher under the Wishing Tree	p. 221
Christopher Isherwood in Jail	p. 228
"Always Dance": Sex and Salvation in Isherwood's Vedantism	p. 236
The Path That Leads to Safety: Spiritual Renewal and Autobiographical Narrative	p. 247
"The Wandering Stopped": An Interview with Christopher Isherwood	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 283
Contributors	p. 286
Index	p. 291
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