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America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Jaime Harker
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Description for America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Paperback. Focuses on one neglected mode of authorship in the interwar period - women's middlebrow authorship and its intersection with progressive politics. This work traces four key moments in this distinctive culture of letters through the careers of Dorothy Canfield, Jessie Fauset, Pearl Buck, and Josephine Herbst. Series: Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Between the two world wars, American publishing entered a ""golden age"" characterized by an explosion of new publishers, authors, audiences, distribution strategies, and marketing techniques. The period was distinguished by a diverse literary culture, ranging from modern cultural rebels to working-class laborers, political radicals, and progressive housewives. In ""America the Middlebrow"", Jaime Harker focuses on one neglected mode of authorship in the interwar period - women's middlebrow authorship and its intersection with progressive politics. With the rise of middlebrow institutions and readers came the need for the creation of the new category of authorship. Harker contends that these new writers ... Read more
Between the two world wars, American publishing entered a ""golden age"" characterized by an explosion of new publishers, authors, audiences, distribution strategies, and marketing techniques. The period was distinguished by a diverse literary culture, ranging from modern cultural rebels to working-class laborers, political radicals, and progressive housewives. In ""America the Middlebrow"", Jaime Harker focuses on one neglected mode of authorship in the interwar period - women's middlebrow authorship and its intersection with progressive politics. With the rise of middlebrow institutions and readers came the need for the creation of the new category of authorship. Harker contends that these new writers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495975
SKU
V9781558495975
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About Jaime Harker
JAIME HARKER is assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
Reviews for America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
Part cultural/intellectual history and part literary history and criticism, this book is interesting and useful.... The writing is clear and accessible, and the book will be of use not only to literary scholars, but also to cultural historians of the early twentieth century. - Trysh Travis, University of Florida