{"product_id":"isherwood-in-transit-hardback-9781517909093","title":"Isherwood in Transit (Hardback) 9781517909093","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIsherwood in Transit\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames J. Berg (Edited by), Chris Freeman (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517909093\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 June 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 7\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The seventeen essays resulted from a conference after the opening of Isherwood’s vast archive at The Huntington, and approach Isherwood in light of his peripatetic days and his continuing spiritual, Vedantic explorations of the spirit. Be sure to read Christopher Bram’s excellent foreword.\"-\u003ci\u003eLavender Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The book does not try to dissimulate Isherwood’s hesitations and occasional mistakes, related to issues of class (for instance in his perhaps somewhat exploitative relationships with working class, that is unemployed and hungry hustlers in his Berlin years) or race (for instance in his contacts with Mishima). This is a very courageous and mature approach, and I think a very healthy stance in the current context of revenge culture.\"-\u003ci\u003eLeonardo Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Anyone with an interest in Isherwood or in Japanese culture and sexual patterns will find this book a worthwhile acquisition.\"-\u003ci\u003eGay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review Worldwide \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational write\u003c\/b\u003er\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my heart in too many places,” muses the narrator of Christopher Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet (1945), which he wrote in his adopted home of Los Angeles after years of dislocation and desperation. In \u003ci\u003eIsherwood in Transit\u003c\/i\u003e, James J.Berg and Chris Freeman bring together diverse Isherwood scholars to understand the challenges this writer faced as a consequence of his travel. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on a conference at the Huntington Library, where Isherwood’s recently opened papers are held, Isherwood in Transit considers the writer not as an English, continental, or American writer but as a transnational one, whose identity, politics, and beliefs were constantly transformed by global connections and engagements arising from journeys to Germany, Japan, China, and Argentina; his migration to the United States; and his conversion to Vedanta Hinduism in the 1940s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eApproaching Isherwood’s rootlessness and restlessness from various perspectives, these essays show that long after he made a new home in California and became an American citizen, Christopher Isherwood remained unsettled, although his wanderings became spiritual and personal rather than geographic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Barrie Jean Borich, DePaul U; Jamie Carr, Niagara U; Robert L. Caserio, Penn State U, University Park; Lisa Colletta, American U of Rome; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi; Carola M. Kaplan, California State U, Pomona; Calvin W. Keogh, Central European U, Budapest; Victor Marsh; Wendy Moffat, Dickinson College; Xenobe Purvis; Bidhan Roy, California State U, Los Angeles; Katharine Stevenson, U of Texas at Austin; Edmund White. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword: A Fan’s Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Bram\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Christopher’s Kind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChris Freeman and James J. Berg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Christopher Isherwood and the California Dream \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSara S. Hodson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. “Rejecting the Real World Outright”: The Shared Fantasy of Mortmere \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKatherine Stevenson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. “A Faith of Personal Sincerity”: Christopher Isherwood’s Debt to the Individualism of E. M. Forster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXenobe Purvis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The Archival “I”: Forster, Isherwood, and the Future of Queer Biography \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWendy Moffat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. A Queer Progress: Christopher Isherwood, Sexual Exceptionalism, and Thirties’ Berlin \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLois Cucullu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Fellow Travelers \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames J. Berg and Chris Freeman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Isherwood as Travel Writer \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLisa Colletta\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8.\u003ci\u003eThe World in the Evening\u003c\/i\u003e: Character in Transit\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert L. Caserio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Isherwood’s “Jolly Corner” in \u003ci\u003eDown There on a Visit\u003c\/i\u003e: The Christopher Who Was Encounters the Christopher Who Might Have Been \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarola M. Kaplan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. Grumbling in Eldorado: \u003ci\u003eA Single Man\u003c\/i\u003e in the American Utopia \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalvin W. Keogh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Pacific Rimming: Queer Expatriatism, Transpacific Los Angeles, and Christopher Isherwood’s Queer Sixties\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJaime Harker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Becoming Gay in the 1960s: Reading A Single Man \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdmund White\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. We Can See the Hilld from Our Bed: Christopher and His Nonfictions \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarrie Jean Borich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. In Search of a Spiritual Home: Christopher Isherwood, the Perennial Philosophy, and Vedanta \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBidhan Chandra Roy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e15. “Enlarging Their Clearing in the Jungle”: The Political Significance of Christopher Isherwood’s \u003ci\u003eMy Guru and His Disciple\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictor Marsh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16. “The Aim of Art is to Transcend Art”: Writing Spirituality in \u003ci\u003eMy Guru and His Disciple \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJamie Carr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e17. A Conversation with Christopher Isherwood, 1979 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDennis Bartel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619251876120,"sku":"9781517909093","price":66.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/isherwood-in-transit-hardback-9781517909093","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}