Playing smart : New York women writers and modern magazine culture /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keyser, Catherine, 1980-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Journalism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American periodicals > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Presse et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Périodiques américains > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
American literature
American literature > Women authors
American periodicals
Journalism and literature
Literature and society
Modernism (Literature)
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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