GATEWAY TO THE MODERN by Valentina Bold (Editor), Andrew Nash (Editor) ( 9781908980021 )

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Title:

GATEWAY TO THE MODERN
RESITUATING J. M. BARRIE

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Valentina Bold (Editor), Andrew Nash (Editor)

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1908980028

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9781908980021

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ASSOCIATION FOR SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES

Pub. date:

5 March, 2014

Series:

ASLS Occasional Papers 18

Pages:

220

Description:

As well as being the author of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie was a hugely successful novelist and playwright. Gateway to the Modern is a collection of essays examining the extraordinary range of his literary achievement. What emerges is a significant writer, fully immersed in the literary and intellectual culture of his day.

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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 revival of interest in Barrie's writing, many critics still fail to include him in surveys of fin de siecle literature or drama. Perhaps Barrie's remarkable variety of output has prevented him from being taken to the centre of critical discussions in any one area of literary criticism or history. Is Barrie predominantly a novelist or a playwright? Is he Victorian, Decadent, Edwardian or Modernist? Gateway to the Modern is the very first collection of essays on Barrie which attempts to do justice to the extraordinary range of his literary achievement. What emerges is a significant writer, fully immersed in the literary and intellectual culture of his day.

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Scottish Literature International

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