Playing smart
Subtitle: New York women writers and modern magazine culture
By: Catherine Keyser
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780813547862
Subjects: Literature and society; History and criticism; American literature; Modernism (Literature); Women authors; American periodicals; Journalism and literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Thoroughly modern Millay and her middlebrow masquerades; title: "This unfortunate exterior": Dorothy Parker, the female body, and strategic doubling; title: "First aid to laughter": Jessie Fauset and the racial politics of smartness; title: The indestructible glamour girl: Dawn Powell, celebrity, and counterpublics; title: "Scratch a socialist and you find a snob": Mary McCarthy, irony, and politics; title: Conclusion.