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- Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J. M. Barrie
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Series: Occasional Papers series
summary
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 siècle 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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-ii
- Acknowledgements
- p. v
- Abbreviations
- p. vi
- Introduction
- pp. vii-xxii
- Part I. Drama and Film
- 1. Barrie and the New Dramatists
- pp. 1-16
- Part II. Barrie and Literary Traditions
- 7. Barrie, Sentimentality, and Modernity
- pp. 103-120
- Part III. Peter Pan's Connections
- 10. Barrie and Bloomsbury
- pp. 155-166
- 12. Dumfries Academy: Responses to Peter Pan
- pp. 186-190
- Contributors
- pp. 191-193
Additional Information
ISBN
9781908980069
Related ISBN(s)
9781908980021
MARC Record
OCLC
896890181
Pages
216
Launched on MUSE
2014-11-25
Language
English
Open Access
No