Middlebrow Wodehouse
Title | Middlebrow Wodehouse PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Rea |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134805586 |
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 relationship to the literary marketplace and his role in moving musical comedy away from vaudeville’s lowbrow associations towards the sophistication of the Wodehouse style. The focus on the middlebrow creates a critical context for serious critical consideration of Wodehouse’s linguistic playfulness and his depictions of social class within England. The contributors explore Wodehouse’s fiction and libretti in reference to philosophy, depictions of masculinity, World War I Britain, the periodical market, ideas of Englishness, and cultural phenomena such as men’s fashion, food culture, and popular songwriting. Taken together, the essays draw attention to the arbitrary divide between high- and middlebrow culture and make a case for Wodehouse as a writer whose games with language are in keeping with modernist experimentation with artistic expression.
Middlebrow Wodehouse
Title | Middlebrow Wodehouse PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Rea |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134805659 |
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 relationship to the literary marketplace and his role in moving musical comedy away from vaudeville’s lowbrow associations towards the sophistication of the Wodehouse style. The focus on the middlebrow creates a critical context for serious critical consideration of Wodehouse’s linguistic playfulness and his depictions of social class within England. The contributors explore Wodehouse’s fiction and libretti in reference to philosophy, depictions of masculinity, World War I Britain, the periodical market, ideas of Englishness, and cultural phenomena such as men’s fashion, food culture, and popular songwriting. Taken together, the essays draw attention to the arbitrary divide between high- and middlebrow culture and make a case for Wodehouse as a writer whose games with language are in keeping with modernist experimentation with artistic expression.
Middlebrow Satire in the Works of P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton and Nancy Mitford
Title | Middlebrow Satire in the Works of P. G. Wodehouse, G. K. Chesterton and Nancy Mitford PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Buckingham |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781527552357 |
Satirists have always painted themselves as paragons, correcting the foibles of their societies and punishing wrongdoers. By contrast, literary scholars emphasise the mode's indeterminacy, instability, and aggression, concluding that satire is too unpalatable to persuade, reform, or injure its readers. But what if they're looking in the wrong places?This new perspective on satire frames the question of satiric efficacy against three middlebrow writers: P.G. Wo.
The Best of Wodehouse
Title | The Best of Wodehouse PDF eBook |
Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | 842 |
Release | 2007-06-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307266613 |
P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) was perhaps the most widely acclaimed British humorist of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he brilliantly examined the complex and idiosyncratic nature of English upper-crust society with hilarious insight and wit. The works in this volume provide a wonderful introduction to Wodehouse’s work and his unique talent for joining fantastic plots with authentic emotion. In The Code of the Woosters, Wodehouse’s most famous duo, Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves, risks all to steal a cream jug. Uncle Fred in the Springtime, part of the famous Blandings Castle series, follows Uncle Fred as he attempts to ruin the Duke of Blandings while he is preoccupied with his favorite pig. Fourteen stories feature some of Wodehouse’s most memorable characters, and three autobiographical pieces provide a revealing look into Wodehouse’s life. With his gift for hilarity and his ever-human tone, Wodehouse and his work have never felt more lively. With a New Introduction by John Mortimer
Library Association Record
Title | Library Association Record PDF eBook |
Author | Library Association |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 756 |
Release | 1934 |
Genre | Bibliography |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
Leave it to Psmith
Title | Leave it to Psmith PDF eBook |
Author | Pelham Grenville Wodehouse |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 245 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Wodehouse Miscellany
Title | A Wodehouse Miscellany PDF eBook |
Author | P. G. Wodehouse |
Publisher | Sheba Blake Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | 134 |
Release | 2022-02-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3985100888 |
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, popularly known by his pen name, P.G. Wodehouse, is one of the most beloved writers of English prose. He is known for his uncanny ability to find and expose the hilarity of even the most quotidian settings and situations. This comprehensive collection of his shorter fiction and non-fiction works is a great introduction to Wodehouse for new readers, or a comforting volume for confirmed fans to dip into.