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Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s
Ist Teil von
Legacy, 2004, Vol.21 (1), p.104-105
Ort / Verlag
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2004
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[Lisa Botshon] and [Meredith Goldsmith] divide their book into four sections that emphasize the distinctive political and mass-market dynamics these writers engaged. The first, "Placemaking: Gender, Genre, and Geography" offers essays by Donna Campbell, Deborah Lindsay Williams, and Dominika Ferens on Rose Wilder Lane, Edna Ferber, Zona Gale, and Winnifred Eaton's contestation of dominant racial, gender, and class paradigms in their writing. In the second section, "The Middlebrow and Magazine Culture," Maureen Honey, Jaime Harker, and Sara Churchwell look at how the editorial stance and advertising content of popular women's magazines shaped the feminist material of new woman fiction in general, or the work of Dorothy Canfield and Anita Loos specifically. In "Women behind the Screens," Heidi Kenaga and Lisa Botshon look at Edna Ferber and Anzia Yezierska's navigation of the necessarily ambivalent appeal of Hollywood. Even as Hollywood offered enough money to help these writers sustain their careers and increased the audience for their works, it generally undermined the radical elements in their fiction. In the final section of the collection, "Women and Consumption," Susan Tomlinson, Stephanie Bower, and Meredith Goldsmith look at consumption as a means of navigating racist typologies in the work of Jessie Fauset, Fannie Hurst, and Nella Larsen, respectively.