Catherine Keyser

Playing Smart

New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A captivating celebration of the causes and careers of a key set of New York women writers of the 1920s and '30s, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary McCarthy. It provides a refreshing and informative chronicle, saluting the value of being 'smart' as incisive and innovative humour showed off the wit and talent of women writers and satirized the fantasy world created by magazines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 377g
• ISBN-13: 9780813551784
• ISBN-10: 0813551781
• Artikelnr.: 33772410

Autorenporträt

Catherine Keyser is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

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