British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965: Travelers, Exiles, and Expats

British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and J.B. Priestley.

Author: L. Colletta
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/16/2013
Pages: 201
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781137380753

About the Author
Lisa Colletta is Associate Professor of English at the American University of Rome, Italy. She is the author of Dark Humor and Social Satire in the Modern British Novel, the editor of Christopher Isherwood's Letters to his Mother, and the co-editor of Wild Colonial Girl: Essays on Edna O'Brien. Her research interests include Modernism, humor studies, and travel literature and her work has appeared in numerous journals and essay collections.