| Description |
xvii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Written with a hard and ruthless purpose : Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber and middlebrow regional fiction / Donna Campbell -- The cosmopolitan regionalism of Zona Gale's Friendship Village / Deborah Williams -- Winnifred Eaton's "Japanese" novels as a field experiment / Dominika Ferens -- Feminist new woman fiction in periodicals of the 1920's / Maureen Honey -- Progressive middlebrow : Dorothy Canfield, women's magazines, and popular feminism in the twenties / Jaime Harker -- Lost among the ads : Gentlemen prefer blondes and the politics of imitation / Sarah Churchwell -- Edna Ferber's Cimarron, cultural authority, and 1920s western historical narratives / Heidi Kenaga -- Anzia Yezierska and the marketing of the Jewish immigrant in 1920s Hollywood / Lisa Botshon -- An unwonted coquetry : the commercial seductions of Jessie Fauset's The chinaberry tree / Susan Tomlinson -- The wages of virtue : consumerism and class formation in Fannie Hurst's Back street / Stephanie Bower -- Shopping to pass, passing to shop : consumer self-fashioning in the fiction of Nella Larsen / Meredith Goldsmith. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- Women authors. |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Popular literature. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Added Author |
Botshon, Lisa, 1967-
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Goldsmith, Meredith.
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| ISBN |
1555535577 cloth alkaline paper |
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1555535569 paperback alkaline paper |
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1555535828 alkaline paper |
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155553581X paperback alkaline paper |
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