Title: Comedy and the feminine middlebrow novel : Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor /
Authors: Brown, Erica, 1975-
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Von Arnim, Elizabeth, Criticism and interpretation History; Taylor, Elizabeth, Criticism and interpretation History; Women in literature; Middle class in literature.; Humor in literature.; Humorous stories, English History and criticism.; English fiction Women authors History and criticism
Contents: The middlebrow and comedy: Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim's cultural and literary context -- A comedic 'response' to war? Elizabeth von Arnim's Christopher and Columbus (1919) and Mr. Skeffington (1940) -- 'One begins to see what is meant by "They lived happily ever after"': Elizabeth von Arnim's Vera (1921) and Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian (1946) -- 'One shudders to think what a less sophisticated artist would have made of it': the comedy of age in Elizabeth von Arnim's Love (1925) and Elizabeth TAylor's In a summer season (1961)