Women, celebrity, and literary culture between the wars [electronic resource] / Faye Hammill.
Series: Literary modernism seriesPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 261 pISBN:- 0292716443 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780292716445 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Women, celebrity, & literary culture between the wars [Spine title]
- American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Authors and readers -- History -- 20th century
- Authorship -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Fame -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century
- Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
- Women and literature -- History -- 20th century
- Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- 820.9/928709042 22
- PS152 .H36 2007eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-249) and index.
"How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette" : Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity fair -- "Brains are really everything" : Anita Loos's Gentlemen prefer blondes -- "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra" : Mae West as author -- "Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island" : L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and early Hollywood -- "The best product of this century" : Margaret Kennedy's The constant nymph -- "Literature or just sheer flapdoodle?": Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm -- "Wildest hopes exceeded" : E. M. Delafield's Diary of a provincial lady.
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