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Middlebrow moderns : popular American women writers of the 1920s / edited by Lisa Botshon & Meredith Goldsmith.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Women authors.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- United States.
- History.
- Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- These original essays shed light on a group of American women writers of the 1920s who negotiated the delicate balance between popular and critical success.
- Contents:
- Written with a hard and ruthless purpose : Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber and Middlebrow Regional Fiction / Donna Campbell
- The cosmopolitan regionalism of Zona Gale's Friendship Village / Deborah Lindsay Williams
- Winnifred Eaton's "Japanese" novels as a field experiment / Dominika Ferens
- Feminist new woman fiction in periodicals of the 1920's / Maureen Honey
- Progressive middlebrow : Dorothy Canfield, women's magazines, and popular feminism in the twenties / Jaime Harker
- Lost among the ads : Gentlemen prefer blondes and the politics of imitation / Sarah Churchwell
- Edna Ferber's Cimarron, cultural authority, and 1920s western historical narratives / Heidi Kenaga
- Anzia Yezierska and the marketing of the Jewish immigrant in 1920s Hollywood / Lisa Botshon
- An unwonted coquetry : the commercial seductions of Jessie Fauset's The chinaberry tree / Susan Tomlinson
- The wages of virtue : consumerism and class formation in Fannie Hurst's Back street / Stephanie Bower
- Shopping to pass, passing to shop : consumer self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1555535577
- 1555535569
- OCLC:
- 50960800
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