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The message of the city : Dawn Powell's New York novels, 1925-1962 /

"Dawn Powell was a gifted satirist who moved in the same circles as Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, renowned editor Maxwell Perkins, and other midcentury New York luminaries. Her many novels are typically divided into two groups: those dealing with her native Ohio and those set in New York. &...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Palermo, Patricia E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, an imprint of Ohio University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "Allow Me to Introduce You"
  • 2. "Hidden in Plain View": An Overview of Her Life and Career; Biographical Account; Critical Reception; The Dawn Powell Revivals
  • 3. "Every Artist Writes His Own Autobiography": The Diaries, Letters, Short Stories, and Criticism; The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931/1965; Selected Letters of Dawn Powell, 1913/1965; Short Stories, Essays, and Reviews; Powell on Satire
  • 4. "Mighty Things from Small Beginnings Grow": The Early New York Novels, 1925/38; Whither, 1925; Turn, Magic Wheel, 1936; The Happy Island, 1938
  • 5. "An Affecting Self-Portrait of the Artist in Middle Age": The Middle New York Novels, 1940/48; Angels on Toast, 1940; A Time to Be Born, 1942; The Locusts Have No King, 1948
  • 6. "Either That Wallpaper Goes, or I Do": The Late New York Novels, 1954/62; The Wicked Pavilion, 1954; The Golden Spur, 1962
  • 7. "Turn, Magic Wheel": The Changing Fortunes of Dawn Powell.