Christopher Isherwood. Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Distribution (MDL) [distributor],. McClelland & Stewart Inc [distributor],. Booksite Afrika [distributor],. Pan Macmillan South Africa [distributor],. Palgrave (Macmillan's global academic publishing) [

The study introduces the reader to the nature and scope of Isherwood's fiction, together with some exploration of the main background influences on his novels, from his time in Nazi Germany in the thirties to his American writing and the period of his religious conversion to Vedanta. The main emphasis is on Isherwood as a writer who has not generally been read and studied as a practitioner of religious or philosophical fiction. His American writing has often been dismissed as evidence of a decline in quality. This study seeks to redress the balance of critical enquiry as well as to introduce Isherwood to new readers and students of the modern novel. Front Matter....Pages i-x Isherwood’s Life and Work....Pages 1-17 Early Novels....Pages 18-29 The Berlin Fiction and Documentary Writing of the 1930s....Pages 30-48 The Berlin Period: Shorter Fiction....Pages 49-60 The Influence of Vedanta on the Novels....Pages 61-78 The Religious Novel and the Transcendental Self....Pages 79-92 ‘A Single Man’: The Prison of Selfhood....Pages 93-102 Autobiography and Fiction in Isherwood’s Work....Pages 103-108 Some Critical Perspectives....Pages 109-116 Back Matter....Pages 117-126 The study introduces the reader to the nature and scope of Christopher Isherwood's fiction, together with some exploration of the main background influences on his novels, from his time in Nazi Germany in the thirties to his American writing and the period of his religious conversion to Vedanta. Stephen Wade. Includes Bibliography And Index.