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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...

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Основен автор: Keyser, Catherine, 1980-
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=431890
Подобни документи: Print version:: Playing Smart : New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture.
Съдържание:
  • 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.