Christopher Isherwood
Subtitle: his era, his gang, and the legacy of the truly strong man
By: David Garrett Izzo.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-; Isherwood, Christopher, 1904- -- Friends and associates.; Isherwood, Christopher, 1904- -- Influence.; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; Sensitivity (Personality trait)
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In a comprehensive critical study of the literary artist, mystic, and gay-activist icon Christopher Isherwood, David Garrett Izzo draws on previously unavailable material to offer a fresh appraisal of the writer's literary milieu and his influence on twentieth-century literature and culture.

The first thorough examination of Isherwood's work and life in twenty years, Izzo's analysis brings into play the Mortmere stories, by Isherwood and Edward Upward (dating from the 1920s but published only in 1994), and the Diaries, 1939-1960, published in 1996, to reposition Isherwood within a circle of British writers that included - besides Upward - W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and Cecil Day Lewis.

Describing Isherwood as a "catalyzing influence" on the Auden generation, Izzo explores the dissemination of Isherwood's ideas through his own work and the writings of his contemporaries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-282) and index.