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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452140703321

Autore

Hammill Faye

Titolo

Women, celebrity, and literary culture between the wars [[electronic resource] /] / Faye Hammill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2007

ISBN

0-292-79487-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Literary modernism series

Disciplina

820.9/928709042

Soggetti

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - History - 20th century

Women authors, American - 20th century

Women authors, English - 20th century

Fame - Economic aspects - History - 20th century

Authorship - Economic aspects - History - 20th century

Authors and readers - History - 20th century

Popular culture - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-249) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette" : Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity fair -- "Brains are really everything" : Anita Loos's Gentlemen prefer blondes -- "A plumber's idea of Cleopatra" : Mae West as author -- "Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island" : L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and early Hollywood -- "The best product of this century" : Margaret Kennedy's The constant nymph -- "Literature or just sheer flapdoodle?": Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm -- "Wildest hopes exceeded" : E. M. Delafield's Diary of a provincial lady.