Middlebrow moderns : popular American women writers of the 1920s /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Botshon, Lisa, 1967-, Goldsmith, Meredith
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2003]
Subjects:	American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century. Popular literature > United States > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Written with a hard and ruthless purpose : Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber and Middlebrow Regional Fiction / Donna Campbell
The cosmopolitan regionalism of Zona Gale's Friendship Village / Deborah Lindsay Williams
Winnifred Eaton's "Japanese" novels as a field experiment / Dominika Ferens
Feminist new woman fiction in periodicals of the 1920's / Maureen Honey
Progressive middlebrow : Dorothy Canfield, women's magazines, and popular feminism in the twenties / Jaime Harker
Lost among the ads : Gentlemen prefer blondes and the politics of imitation / Sarah Churchwell
Edna Ferber's Cimarron, cultural authority, and 1920s western historical narratives / Heidi Kenaga
Anzia Yezierska and the marketing of the Jewish immigrant in 1920s Hollywood / Lisa Botshon
An unwonted coquetry : the commercial seductions of Jessie Fauset's The chinaberry tree / Susan Tomlinson
The wages of virtue : consumerism and class formation in Fannie Hurst's Back street / Stephanie Bower
Shopping to pass, passing to shop : consumer self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith.