
Gateway to the Modern
Resituating J. M. Barrie
Scottish Literature International (Publisher)
Published on 5. March 2014
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Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-1-908980-02-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908980-02-1 (9781908980021)
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