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Making love modern : the intimate public worlds of New York's literary women /

In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Nina, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Love in Greenwich Village: Genevieve Taggard and the Bohemian ideal
  • Aestheticized love and sexual violence
  • The Algonquin round table and the politics of sophistication
  • "Oh, do sit down, I've got so much to tell you!": Dorothy Parker and her intimate public
  • "The new (and newer) Negro(es)": generational conflict in the Harlem Renaissance
  • "Exalting Negro womanhood": performance and cultural responsibility for the middle-class heroine
  • "Our younger Negro (women) artists": Gwendolyn Bennett and Helene Johnson.