{"product_id":"w-h-auden-in-context-hardback-9780521196574","title":"W. H. Auden in Context (Hardback) 9780521196574","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eW. H. Auden in Context\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe authoritative essays in this collection provide helpful contextual models for engaging with W. H. Auden's poetry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTony Sharpe (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521196574, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 January 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.79 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'A valuable addition to Auden studies, this book opens many windows to this quintessential 20th-century author … required reading for scholars and Auden aficionados. Highly recommended. All readers.' B. Wallenstein, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eW. H. Auden is a giant of twentieth-century English poetry whose writings demonstrate a sustained engagement with the times in which he lived. But how did the century's shifting cultural terrain affect him and his work? Written by distinguished poets and scholars, these brief but authoritative essays offer a varied set of coordinates by which to chart Auden's continuously evolving career, examining key aspects of his environmental, cultural, political and creative contexts. Reaching beyond mere biography, these essays present Auden as the product of ongoing negotiations between himself, his time and posterity, exploring the enduring power of his poetry to unsettle and provoke. The collection will prove valuable for scholars, researchers and students of English literature, cultural studies and creative writing.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of contributors\u003cbr\u003e A note on editions and abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Tony Sharpe\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Contexts of Place: 1. Auden's northerliness Tony Sharpe\u003cbr\u003e 2. Two cities: Berlin and New York Patrick Deer\u003cbr\u003e 3. Ideas about England Stan Smith\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ideas of America Aidan Wasley\u003cbr\u003e 5. At home in Italy and Austria Justin Quinn\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Social and Cultural Contexts: 6. Auden and the class system Adrian Caesar\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Church of England: Auden's Anglicanism Tony Sharpe\u003cbr\u003e 8. British homosexuality, 1920–39 Gregory Woods\u003cbr\u003e 9. American homosexuality, 1939–72 Richard Bozorth\u003cbr\u003e 10. Auden among women Janet Montefiore\u003cbr\u003e 11. Auden and the American literary world Aidan Wasley\u003cbr\u003e 12. Atlantic Auden Michael Wood\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Political, Historical and Theoretical Contexts: 13. Communism and fascism in 1920s and 1930s Britain Matthew Worley\u003cbr\u003e 14. Auden and wars Patrick Deer\u003cbr\u003e 15. Auden and Freud: the psychoanalytic text John Boly\u003cbr\u003e 16. Auden's theology Alan Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e 17. In history Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Creative Contexts (i): 18. The body Edward Mendelson\u003cbr\u003e 19. The cinema Keith Williams\u003cbr\u003e 20. 1930s British drama Steve Nicholson\u003cbr\u003e 21. The documentary moment David Collard\u003cbr\u003e 22. Travel writing Tim Youngs\u003cbr\u003e 23. Auden and post-war opera Michael Symmons Roberts\u003cbr\u003e (ii) Precursors and Contemporaries: 24. Earlier English influences Chris Jones\u003cbr\u003e 25. Shakespeare Stephen Regan\u003cbr\u003e 26. Yeats Michael O'Neill\u003cbr\u003e 27. Eliot Hugh Haughton\u003cbr\u003e 28. Some modernists in early Auden Gareth Reeves\u003cbr\u003e 29. In German Rainer Emig\u003cbr\u003e 30. Auden and Isherwood James J. Berg and Chris Freeman\u003cbr\u003e Part V. The 'Most Professional' Poet: 31. Auden in prose Sean O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e 32. Auden and little magazines Andrew Thacker\u003cbr\u003e 33. Double take: Auden in collaboration Richard Badenhausen\u003cbr\u003e 34. Auden and prosody Sean O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e 35. Auden's forms Seamus Perry\u003cbr\u003e Further reading\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: from c 1900 -\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20from%20c%201900%20-%20%5BDSBH%5D%22\"\u003eDSBH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004808515864,"sku":"9780521196574","price":94.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521196574i_13a84b4e-a3cf-488f-9790-9b3d7132d806.jpg?v=1691373812","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/w-h-auden-in-context-hardback-9780521196574","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}