Comedy and the feminine middlebrow novel : Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor / / by Erica Brown

• Autore: Brown Erica <1975-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 164 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 823.912099287
• Soggetto topico: Women in literature; Middle class in literature; Humor in literature; Humorous stories, English - History and criticism; English fiction - Women authors - History and criticism
• Note generali: "First published 2013 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd."--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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).
• Sommario/riassunto: Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) and Elizabeth Taylor (1912-75) wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues that their skilful use of comedy and irony worked as devices to provide the receptive reader with a subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life. She traces the critical reception of their novels from the publication of von Arnim's <i>Christopher and Columbus</i> (1919) to Taylor's <i>In a Summer Season</i> (1961). In doing so, she demonstrates that hostility to the 'feminine middlebrow', often supposed to be at its height between the wars, in fact intensified after World War II.<br> <br> <b>Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Awards, 2014 - Literatures in the English Language (Junior Scholars)</b><br>
• Altri titoli varianti: Comedy & the Feminine Middlebrow Novel
• Titolo autorizzato: Comedy and the feminine middlebrow novel
• ISBN: 1-317-32073-5; 1-315-65499-7; 1-317-32074-3; 1-84893-339-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814094003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literary texts and the popular marketplace ; ; no. 3.