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  1. Playing smart
    New York women writers and modern magazine culture
    Author: Keyser, Catherine
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J.

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813547862; 0813547865; 9780813551784; 9780813551111
    Subjects: Geschichte; American literature / Women authors / History and criticism; American literature / 20th century / History and criticism; Journalism and literature / United States / History / 20th century; American periodicals / History / 20th century; Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century; Modernism (Literature) / United States; Geschlechterrolle; Journalistin; Schriftstellerin
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 225 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction -- Thoroughly modern Millay and her middlebrow masquerades -- "This unfortunate exterior": Dorothy Parker, the female body, and strategic doubling -- "First aid to laughter": Jessie Fauset and the racial politics of smartness -- The indestructible glamour girl: Dawn Powell, celebrity, and counterpublics -- "Scratch a socialist and you find a snob": Mary McCarthy, irony, and politics -- Conclusion
  2. Playing Smart
    New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
    Author: Keyser, Catherine
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ

    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... more

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    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 l

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780813547862
    Scope: Online-Ressource (241 p.)
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    IntroductionThoroughly modern Millay and her middlebrow masquerades -- "This unfortunate exterior": Dorothy Parker, the female body, and strategic doubling -- "First aid to laughter": Jessie Fauset and the racial politics of smartness -- The indestructible glamour girl: Dawn Powell, celebrity, and counterpublics -- "Scratch a socialist and you find a snob": Mary McCarthy, irony, and politics -- Conclusion.