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Christopher Isherwood

  • Textbook
  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Stephen Wade
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Modern Novelists Series (PMN)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Isherwood’s Life and Work

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 1-17

  3. Early Novels

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 18-29

  4. The Berlin Fiction and Documentary Writing of the 1930s

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 30-48

  5. The Berlin Period: Shorter Fiction

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 49-60

  6. The Influence of Vedanta on the Novels

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 61-78

  7. The Religious Novel and the Transcendental Self

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 79-92

  8. ‘A Single Man’: The Prison of Selfhood

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 93-102

  9. Autobiography and Fiction in Isherwood’s Work

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 103-108

  10. Some Critical Perspectives

    • Stephen Wade
    Pages 109-116

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 117-126
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About this book

The study introduces the reader to the nature and scope of Isherwood's fiction, together with some exploration of the main background influences on his novels, from his time in Nazi Germany in the thirties to his American writing and the period of his religious conversion to Vedanta. The main emphasis is on Isherwood as a writer who has not generally been read and studied as a practitioner of religious or philosophical fiction. His American writing has often been dismissed as evidence of a decline in quality. This study seeks to redress the balance of critical enquiry as well as to introduce Isherwood to new readers and students of the modern novel.

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