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

1st Edition

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

By Graham Wolfe Copyright 2020
216 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre. Though theatre has made star appearances in dozens of literary fictions, including many by modern history’s most influential authors, no full-length study has dedicated itself specifically to... Read more

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

Index

 

 

 


 

Biography

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.

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