Playing smart [electronic resource] : New York women writers and modern magazine culture / Catherine Keyser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keyser, Catherine, 1980-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Journalism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Journalism and literature.

American periodicals--History--20th century.

American periodicals.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 it meant to be a woman in the public eye, how gender roles would change because men and women were working together, and how the growth of the magazine industry would affect women's relationships to their bodies and minds. Playing Smart celebrates their causes and careers and pays hom

Contents:

Introduction

Thoroughly modern Millay and her middlebrow masquerades

"This unfortunate exterior": Dorothy Parker, the female body, and strategic doubling

"First aid to laughter": Jessie Fauset and the racial politics of smartness

The indestructible glamour girl: Dawn Powell, celebrity, and counterpublics

"Scratch a socialist and you find a snob": Mary McCarthy, irony, and politics

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-86426-6

0-8135-5111-0

OCLC:

774279007