Middlebrow moderns
Subtitle: popular American women writers of the 1920s
By: edited by Lisa Botshon & Meredith Goldsmith.
Contributors: Botshon, Lisa, 1967-; Goldsmith, Meredith.
Publisher: Northeastern University Press; Brand: Northeastern; UBC Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Written with a hard and ruthless purpose : Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber and middlebrow regional fiction / Donna Campbell; title: The cosmopolitan regionalism of Zona Gale's Friendship Village / Deborah Williams; title: Winnifred Eaton's "Japanese" novels as a field experiment / Dominika Ferens; title: Feminist new woman fiction in periodicals of the 1920's / Maureen Honey; title: Progressive middlebrow : Dorothy Canfield, women's magazines, and popular feminism in the twenties / Jaime Harker; title: Lost among the ads : Gentlemen prefer blondes and the politics of imitation / Sarah Churchwell; title: Edna Ferber's Cimarron, cultural authority, and 1920s western historical narratives / Heidi Kenaga; title: Anzia Yezierska and the marketing of the Jewish immigrant in 1920s Hollywood / Lisa Botshon; title: An unwonted coquetry : the commercial seductions of Jessie Fauset's The chinaberry tree / Susan Tomlinson; title: The wages of virtue : consumerism and class formation in Fannie Hurst's Back street / Stephanie Bower; title: Shopping to pass, passing to shop : consumer self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith.