The Isherwood century
Subtitle: essays on the life and work of Christopher Isherwood
By: edited and with an introduction by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman ; foreword by Armistead Maupin.
Contributors: Berg, James J.; Freeman, Chris, 1965-
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations; title: Foreword / Armistead Maupin; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: the Isherwood century / James J. Berg and Chris Freeman; title: Who is Christopher Isherwood? / Katherine Bucknell; title: Isherwood in Los Angeles / Dan Luckenbill; title: In the blink of an eye: evolving with Christopher Isherwood / Stathis Orphanos; title: Ish circa 1959-1963 / Michael S. Harper; title: Reading from Isherwood's letter circa 1959-1963 / Michael S. Harper; title: Gay Isherwood visits straight Riverside / Robert Peters; title: My Isherwood, my Bachardy / Carolyn G. Heilbrun; title: "Write it down or it's lost": Isherwood as mentor / James P. White; title: A life open to art / Don Bachardy; title: Portrait of the artist as companion: interviews with Don Bachardy / Niladri R. Chatterjee; title: Frankenstein: the true story: the artist as "monster" / Katharine M. Morsberger and Robert E. Morsberger; title: Pool in rocks by the sea: Isherwood and Bachardy / Edmund White; title: Deathwatch / Donald N. Mager; title: Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and anti-ancestral impulses in The memorial / James Kelley; title: In a populous city: Isherwood in the thirties / Antony Shuttleworth; title: The dog beneath the schoolboy's skin: Isherwood, Auden, and fascism / William Ostrem; title: Documentary dilemmas: Shifting fronts in Journey to a war / Marsha Bryant; title: Strategically minor: Isherwood's revision of Forter's Mythology / Stephen da Silva; title: A single man, then and now / David Garnes; title: Isherwood and the Violet Quill / David Bergman; title: Christopher under the wishing tree / P. Shneidre; title: Christopher Isherwood in jail / David Garrett Izzo; title: "Always dance": Sex and salvation in Isherwood's vedantism / John McFarland; title: The path that leads to safety: Spiritual renewal and autobiographical narrative / Mario Faraone; title: "The wandering stopped": An interview with Christopher Isherwood / Carola M. Kaplan; title: Bibliography; title: Contributors; title: Index.