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Author:

Hammill, Faye.

Title:

Women, celebrity, and literary culture between the wars / Faye Hammill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

viii, 261 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--20th century.
Women authors, American--20th century--Biography.--Biography.
Women authors, English--20th century--Biography.--Biography.
Fame--History--History--20th century.
Authorship--History--History--20th century.
Authors and readers--History--20th century.
Popular culture--History--20th century.

Notes:

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

Contents:

"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.

Series:

Literary modernism series

ISBN:

0292716443 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292716445 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)85862277

LCCN:

2007009533

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)