Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction to Middlebrow Wodehouse -- 1 Know Your Audience: Middlebrow Aesthetic and Literary Positioning in the Fiction of P.G. Wodehouse / Ann-Marie Einhaus -- 2 Reading Up or Curling Up with a Book: Aspiring and Promiscuous Readers in P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie Stories / Ann Rea -- 3 Before Jeeves: Impudence in P.G. Wodehouse's Novels, 1909-23 / Michael T. Williamson -- 4 P.G. Wodehouse and the First World War / George Simmers -- 5 The Prison Camp as Public School: Wodehouse, School Stories and the Second World War / Caleb Richardson -- 6 The Place of the Pig: Blandings, Barsetshire and Britain / Debra Rae Cohen -- 7 P.G. Wodehouse and the American Musical Comedy: Innovations in Writing / Basil Considine -- 8 Wooster the Musician / Kenneth Kreitner -- 9 Philosophy with a Smile / Richard Hall -- 10 'A Fairly Unclouded Life': Upper-Class Masculinity in Crisis in the Early Jeeves and Wooster / Roz Tuplin -- 11 The Queer Domesticity of Bertie and Jeeves / Brian D. Holcomb -- 12 Problematic Menswear in P.G. Wodehouse and Dornford Yates / Kate Macdonald -- 13 In the Soup: Food and Hospitality in Wartime Wodehouse / Ariel Buckley -- Appendix: P.G. Wodehouse's Contributions to the Musical Theatre Genre -- Bibliography -- Index.
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