- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
-
Foreword Outside the Frame -
Introduction An American Outsider -
I A Single Man and Los Angeles Culture in the 1960s -
1 A Single Man and the American Maurice -
2 Labor of Love -
3 Working through Grief in the Drafts of A Single Man -
4 Writing the Unspeakable in A Single Man and Mrs. Dalloway -
5 A Whole without Transcendence -
6 Ford Does Isherwood -
7 A Real Diamond -
II The Religious Writer -
8 Isherwood and the Psycho-geography of Home -
9 Isherwood and Huxley -
10 Down Where on a Visit? -
11 A Phone Call by the River -
12 “Give Me Devotion … Even Against My Will” -
13 Spiritual Searching in Isherwood’s Artistic Production -
III A Writer at Odds with Himself in Cold War America -
14 Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward -
15 Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years -
16 The Celebrity Effect -
17 A Writer at Work -
18 Pulp Isherwood -
19 Not Satisfied with the Ending - Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years
Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years
- Chapter:
- (p.215) 15 Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years
- Source:
- The American Isherwood
- Author(s):
Peter Edgerly Firchow
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
This chapter focuses on Christopher Isherwood’s collaboration with Aldous Huxley on a number of literary projects in California during the 1950s and early 1960s. It considers how the Huxley–Isherwood friendship allowed the two writers to explore their common interests in Eastern religion, film writing, and the Southern California landscape. Working on scripts for plays and films was something Isherwood was good at and already had a fair amount of experience doing, not only for a lot less money a few years earlier with Berthold Viertel in London, but even more notably with his close friend W. H. Auden. He undertook several collaborated scripts with Huxley, including Jacob’s Hands—the only one ever to be published. Unfortunately, their collaborations did not lead to financial or artistic success.
Keywords: friendship, Christopher Isherwood, collaboration, Aldous Huxley, California, scripts, plays, films, W. H. Auden, Jacob’s Hands
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
-
Foreword Outside the Frame -
Introduction An American Outsider -
I A Single Man and Los Angeles Culture in the 1960s -
1 A Single Man and the American Maurice -
2 Labor of Love -
3 Working through Grief in the Drafts of A Single Man -
4 Writing the Unspeakable in A Single Man and Mrs. Dalloway -
5 A Whole without Transcendence -
6 Ford Does Isherwood -
7 A Real Diamond -
II The Religious Writer -
8 Isherwood and the Psycho-geography of Home -
9 Isherwood and Huxley -
10 Down Where on a Visit? -
11 A Phone Call by the River -
12 “Give Me Devotion … Even Against My Will” -
13 Spiritual Searching in Isherwood’s Artistic Production -
III A Writer at Odds with Himself in Cold War America -
14 Christopher Isherwood and Edward Upward -
15 Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years -
16 The Celebrity Effect -
17 A Writer at Work -
18 Pulp Isherwood -
19 Not Satisfied with the Ending - Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
