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British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965
Lisa Colletta
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Description for British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965
Hardcover. British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and J.B. Priestley. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; DSBH; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and J.B. Priestley.
British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and J.B. Priestley.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
201
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137380753
SKU
V9781137380753
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99-15
About Lisa Colletta
Lisa Colletta is Associate Professor of English at the American University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel, the editor of Christopher Isherwood's Letters to his Mother, and the co-editor of Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien. Her research interests include Modernism, humor studies, and travel literature and ... Read more
Reviews for British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965
"Well written and thoroughly researched" - Anthony Powell Society Newsletter "Lisa Colletta has written a lively and engaging study of British and European writers who came to Hollywood in an effort to escape what they saw as a society exhausted by the burden of history, and later fleeing fascism and hoping to create a new artistic and ... Read more