Gateway to the Modern : Resituating J. M. Barrie /

J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was the most successful British playwright of the early twentieth century, and his novels were once thought equal to those of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. Although in recent years there has been a reviv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nash, Andrew, 1972- (Editor ), Bold, Valentina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Occasional papers (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) ; no. 18.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Barrie, J. M. > (James Matthew), > 1860-1937 > Criticism and interpretation.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Drama and Film
  • One Barrie and the New Dramatists / Jan McDonald
  • Two 'The odd, odd triangle' : Barrie's Metatheatrical Critique of the Victorian Dramatic Tradition / Anna Farkas
  • Three Barrie's Later Dramas : The Shakespearean Romances / R.D.S. Jack
  • Four The Boy Who Never Grew Up? J.M. Barrie and Cinema / Jonathan Murray
  • Part II. Barrie and Literary Traditions
  • Five Barrie's Farewells : The Final Story / Douglas Gifford
  • Six 'Frae Anither Window in Thrums' : Hugh MacDiarmid and J.M. Barrie / Margery Palmer McCulloch
  • Seven Barrie, Sentimentality, and Modernity / Andrew Nash
  • Part III. Peter Pan's Connections
  • Eight Betwixt-and-Between : Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and the Decadent Moment / Paul Fox
  • Nine Peter Pan's Make-Believe : Place, Uncertainty, and Wonder / Ralph Jessop
  • Ten Barrie and Bloomsbury / Rosemary Ashton
  • Eleven 'A love that is real' : Children's Responses to Wendy / Valentina Bold
  • Twelve Dumfries Academy : Responses to Peter Pan / Hugh McMillan
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index.

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