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Author Hammill, Faye.

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

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

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 Moore Stacks  PS152 .H36 2007    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Literary modernism series
Literary modernism series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors.
Women and literature -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women authors, American.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women authors, English.
Fame -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Fame -- Economic aspects.
Fame.
Authorship -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Authorship -- Economic aspects.
Authorship.
Authors and readers -- History -- 20th century.
Authors and readers.
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Spine Title Women, celebrity, & literary culture between the wars
ISBN 9780292716445 cloth alkaline paper
0292716443 cloth alkaline paper