The Isherwood century : essays on the life and work of Christopher Isherwood / edited and with an introduction by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman ; foreword by Armistead Maupin.

"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...

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Other Authors: Berg, James J. (Editor), Freeman, Chris, 1965- (Editor), Maupin, Armistead (writer of foreword.)
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Language:English
Published: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2000]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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