Max Beerbohm and the Act of Writing

by Lawrence Danson

Book Overview

Max Beerbohm was an elusive and marginal genius--marginal in the sense that he always assumed the role of parodist, looking in from the edges, and taking a literary position shunned by more mainstream artists. In this study of Max Beerbohm's writings and drawings, many of which are reproduced, Danson rediscovers Beerbohm in all his phases and transformations, from the relatively well-known Zuleika Dobson, Seven Men, and Rossetti and his Circle, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198112270
• ISBN13: 9780198112273
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"