302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, attending to his self-conscious... Read more
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
Biography
Ann Rea is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, USA.
