03288nam 2200685 a 450 991081201880332120240516114358.01-283-86426-60-8135-5111-0(CKB)3170000000046882(EBL)847575(OCoLC)774279007(SSID)ssj0000592577(PQKBManifestationID)11407078(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000592577(PQKBWorkID)10736254(PQKB)10463041(MiAaPQ)EBC847575(MdBmJHUP)muse8149(Au-PeEL)EBL847575(CaPaEBR)ebr10531170(CaONFJC)MIL417676(EXLCZ)99317000000004688220091210d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlaying smart[electronic resource] New York women writers and modern magazine culture /Catherine Keyser1st ed.New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press20101 online resource (241 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-4786-5 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.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 homAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismJournalism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican periodicalsHistory20th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryModernism (Literature)United StatesAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Journalism and literatureHistoryAmerican periodicalsHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryModernism (Literature)810.9/928718.06bclKeyser Catherine1980-1600331MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812018803321Playing smart3923374UNINA