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Playing smart : New York women writers and modern magazine culture /
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, and others imagined New York as a place where they could claim professional status, define urban independence, and shrug off confining feminine roles. Their fiction raised questions about what...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1
- Thoroughly Modern Millay and Her Middlebrow Masquerades; 2
- "This Unfortunate Exterior": Dorothy Parker, the Female Body, and Strategic Doubling; 3
- "First Aid to Laughter": Jessie Fauset and the Racial Politics of Smartness; 4
- The Indestructible Glamour Girl: Dawn Powell, Celebrity, and Counterpublics; 5
- "Scratch a Socialist and You Find a Snob": Mary McCarthy, Irony, and Politics; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.