Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing by Lawrence Danson

Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing by Lawrence Danson

Lawrence Danson explores the relationship between Beerbohm the man and "Max", his own self-creation, who was dandily dressed and scarcely seemed to age or change throughout his life. He relates this marked and curious splitting of identity to the published works of the author and artist. Beginning with a brief biography, he proceeds to examine the carefully constructed and polished self-image developed by Beerbohm, and to show how this affected contemporary writers, painters and aesthetes, the theatrical, literary and cultured "worlds" of the day. The book, which is part biography and part literary study, also asks whether Beerbohm was essentially a writer or a visual artist.

Lawrence Danson is Professor English at Princeton University. He is the author of The Harmonies of The Merchant of Venice (Yale), as well as other books and articles on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Tragic Alphabet: Shakespeare's Drama of Language (Yale) and Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres (Oxford). He has also written Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in His Criticism (Oxford) and Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing (Oxford). He is co-editor of The Phoenix in The Complete Works of Thomas Middleton (Oxford).

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ISBN 13	9780198128632
ISBN 10	0198128630
Title	Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing
Author	Lawrence Danson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1989-02-01
Number of pages	280
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