Edna Ferber's America / Eliza McGraw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGraw, Eliza R. L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Ferber, Edna.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Lousiana State University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the 1910's to the 1950's, Edna Ferber (1885--1968) published a series of bestselling novels that made her one of Doubleday's highest-paid authors, earned her a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925, and transformed her into a literary celebrity. She hosted dinner parties covered by the New York Times, lunched at the Algonquin Round Table with Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott, and collaborated with George S. Kaufman on hit plays such as Dinner at Eight and Stage Door. In Edna Ferber's America, Eliza McGraw provides the first in-depth critical study of the author's novels, exploring the

Contents:

The girls: Dawn O'Hara and Fanny herself

Wheat and emeralds: The girls and So big

A pinprick of blood: Show Boat

The cowboys, the indians, and the Jew: Cimarron

Coloring the blue bloods: American beauty and Come and get it

Passing fancy: Saratoga trunk

Big spaces, big problems: Giant

Conclusion: The Great White North: Great Son and Ice Palace.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780807151907

0807151904

9780807151891

0807151890

OCLC:

868580551