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Playing Smart
Price (paper): $23.95
Price (cloth): $39.95
Subtitle: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
Authors: Catherine Keyser
Subject:Literary Studies, American Studies, Women's Studies
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5178-4
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4786-5
Pages: 242 pages
Publication Date: September 2011 (First Paperback Edition)
Series: American Literatures Initiative
Praise for Playing Smart:
"With a sense of humor and style, and a smartness of her own, Keyser takes up the cause and the career of a 'smart' set of women writers who made a distinct mark on modern American culture."
—Maria DiBattista, author of Fast-Talking Dames
Description:
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, and others imagined New York as a place where they could claim professional status, define urban independence, and shrug off confining feminine roles. Their fiction raised questions about what it meant to be a woman in the public eye, how gender roles would change because men and women were working together, and how the growth of the magazine industry would affect women's relationships to their bodies and minds. Playing Smart celebrates their causes and careers and pays homage to their literary genius.
About the Author:
CATHERINE KEYSER is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Carolina.
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