Clemence Dane and Good housekeeping : modernity and common reading / Stella Deen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deen, Stella, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dane, Clemence--Criticism and interpretation.

Dane, Clemence.

Good housekeeping (London).

Criticism.

Home economics--Periodicals.

Home economics.

Women periodical editors--Great Britain.

Women periodical editors.

Women critics--Great Britain.

Women critics.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

ix, 237 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm

monochrome

polychrome

illustration

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Clemence Dane and Good Housekeeping: Modernity and Common Reading examines Dane's tenure as a literary critic for Good Housekeeping between 1923 and 1933, firmly locating it within a vibrant interwar periodical culture. By expressing confidence in a shared literary heritage, modelling enjoyment of a wide variety of literature and linking women's reading habits to the revitalisation of national literary culture, Dane's serial essays implicitly challenged academic and modernist approaches to literature. Moreover, Dane's monthly book pages, in dialogue with book authors and with other feminist contributors, fulfilled and exceeded Good Housekeeping's mission by preparing women for their new responsibilities as British citizens. Dane's journalism sheds new light on the heterogeneity intrinsic to quality domestic magazines and the roles they played in fostering women's multi-faceted modern identities. Stella Deen demonstrates that Dane's corpus of Good Housekeeping essays makes a significant contribution to the conceptualisation of the common reader and to the history of twentieth-century literary criticism." -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: Clemence Dane, modernity and interwar periodical culture

Books that endure

Common readers and the varied pleasures of reading

The history of ourselves: cultural, rural and matriarchal legacies

The boundary stones of belief

The voice of women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1399516906

9781399516907

OCLC:

1457231554

Publisher Number:

CIPO000201937