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P. G. Wodehouse and the Middlebrow: Placing the Fiction in its Post-World War One Context
| Call for Papers Date: | 2011-04-01 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-02-25 |
| Announcement ID: |
183371 |
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Please submit 400 word proposals for an edited collection of essays about P. G. Wodehouse’s fiction, especially in the context of recent studies of middlebrow culture.
Proposed articles might address, but not be limited by, the following suggestions:
• Post-war gender politics and marriage plots (or the avoidance thereof!)
• Creation of the insubstantial and deliberate voiding of meaning
• Classicism and P.G. Wodehouse
• Comparisons with Evelyn Waugh
• Avoidance of cynicism or modishness
• Wodehouse and Camp
• Aunts and boy/girls
• Male authority and the post-First world War context
• Butlers
• Wodehouse’s literary genealogy
• The libretti and music
• Wodehouse’s classicism
• Bees, drones and work
• Magazine publications of Wodehouse stories
• Wodehouse’s popularity in India
• Gambling and its relation to plot outcome
• Money and objects of exchange
• Wodehouse and radio broadcasts, including those on German radio
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Ann Rea
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown,
223D Biddle Hall,
450 Schoolhouse Road,
Johnstown,
PA 15904
Email: anr12@pitt.edu
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