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Middlebrow Wodehouse - P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context (Paperback)
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Middlebrow Wodehouse - P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context (Paperback)
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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.
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