New York women of wit in the twentieth century / Sabrina Fuchs Abrams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fuchs-Abrams, Sabrina, 1967- author.

Series:

Humor in America.

Humor in America Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--New York (State)--New York--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature--Women authors.

American wit and humor--History and criticism.

American wit and humor.

Women and literature--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Women humorists--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.

Women humorists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 234 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Examines the work of pioneering female writers who used humor as an indirect form of social protest to challenge traditional gender norms and social expectations in interwar New York"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the female satirist in the city

Nancy Boyd and the Greenwich Village Bohemians : the secret, subversive humor of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dorothy Parker and the "vicious circle" : satire of modern love and New York society

Tess Slesinger, the Menorah Journal group, and the feminist socialist satire of 1930s America

Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance, and the racial and gender politics of humor

Dawn Powell and the Lafayette Circle : satirist of Greenwich Village Bohemia and modern, midtown publishing culture

Mary McCarthy and the Partisan Review crowd : satire and the modern bitch intellectual

Epilogue : fighting funny; postfeminism, postracialism, and the fumorist of the future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271097022

0271097027

9780271097039

0271097035

OCLC:

1460464501