Faye Hammill

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating look at seven American, Canadian, and English women writers-Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield-who achieved popular success in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work is s

Produktdetails

• Literary Modernism
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780292726062
• ISBN-10: 0292726066
• Artikelnr.: 31970214

Autorenporträt

Faye Hammill is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1. "How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a
Spanish omelette": Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair
* 2. "Brains are really everything": Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer
Blondes
* 3. "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra": Mae West as Author
* 4. "Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island":
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Early Hollywood
* 5. "The best product of this century": Margaret Kennedy's The
Constant Nymph
* 6. "Literature or just sheer flapdoodle?": Stella Gibbons's Cold
Comfort Farm
* 7. "Wildest hopes exceeded": E. M. Delafield's Diary of a Provincial
Lady
* Conclusion
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index