Erica Brown

Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel

Elizabeth Von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor

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Produktbeschreibung

Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781848933385
• ISBN-10: 184893338X
• Artikelnr.: 43748330

Autorenporträt

Erica Brown

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Middlebrow and Comedy:
Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth Von Arnim's Cultural and Literary Context;
Chapter 2 A Comedic 'Response' to War? Elizabeth Von Arnim's Christopher
and Columbus (1919) and Mr Skeffington (1940), and Elizabeth Taylor's at
Mrs Lippincote's (1945); Chapter 3 'One Begins to See What is Meant by
"They Lived Happily Ever after"': Elizabeth Von Arnim's Vera (1921) and
Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian (1946); Chapter 4 'One Shudders to Think What
a Less Sophisticated Artist Would Have Made of It': The Comedy of Age in
Elizabeth Von Arnim's Love (1925) and Elizabeth Taylor's in a Summer Season
(1961); Conclusion;