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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents
Foreword: Outside the Frame
Stephen McCauley
Introduction: An American Outsider
James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
Part I. A Single Man and Los Angeles Culture in the 1960s
1. A Single Man and the American Maurice
Lois Cucullu
2. Labor of Love: Making Chris & Don
Tina Mascara and Guido Santi
3. Working through Grief in the Drafts of A Single Man
Carola M. Kaplan
4. Writing the Unspeakable in A Single Man and Mrs. Dalloway
Jamie Carr
5. A Whole without Transcendence: Isherwood, Woolf, and the Aesthetics of Connection
William R. Handley
6. Ford Does Isherwood
Kyle Stevens
7. A Real Diamond: The Multicultural World of A Single Man
James J. Berg and Chris Freeman
Part II. The Religious Writer
8. Isherwood and the Psycho-geography of Home
Victor Marsh
9. Isherwood and Huxley: The Novel as Mystic Fable
Robert L. Caserio
10. Down Where on a Visit?: Isherwood’s Mythology of Self
Rebecca Gordon Stewart
11. A Phone Call by the River
Paul M. McNeil
12. “Give me devotion . . . even against my will”: Christopher Isherwood and India
Niladri R. Chatterjee
13. Spiritual Searching in Isherwood’s Artistic Production
Mario Faraone
Part III. A Writer at Odds with Himself in Cold War America
14. Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward
Benjamin Kohlmann
15. Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years
Peter Edgerly Firchow
16. The Celebrity Effect: Isherwood, Hollywood, and the Performance of Self
Lisa Colletta
17. A Writer at Work: The Isherwood Archive
Sara S. Hodson
18. Pulp Isherwood: Cheap Paperbacks and Queer Cold War Readers
Jaime Harker
19. Not Satisfied with the Ending: Connecting The World in the Evening to Maurice
Joshua Adair
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
