| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 -- Thoroughly Modern Millay and Her Middlebrow Masquerades; 2 -- "This Unfortunate Exterior": Dorothy Parker, the Female Body, and Strategic Doubling; 3 -- "First Aid to Laughter": Jessie Fauset and the Racial Politics of Smartness; 4 -- The Indestructible Glamour Girl: Dawn Powell, Celebrity, and Counterpublics; 5 -- "Scratch a Socialist and You Find a Snob": Mary McCarthy, Irony, and Politics; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author. |
| 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 homage to their li. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Journalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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American periodicals -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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American literature -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807271
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American periodicals. (OCoLC)fst00807335
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Journalism and literature. (OCoLC)fst00984110
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Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
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Modernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01024455
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Keyser, Catherine. Playing Smart : New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2010 9780813547862 |
| ISBN |
9780813551111 (electronic bk.) |
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0813551110 (electronic bk.) |
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