Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars / / Faye Hammill.
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private l...
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Hammill, Faye, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars / Faye Hammill. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2007 1 online resource (271 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Literary Modernism Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. “How to tell the diff erence between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette”: Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity Fair -- 2. “Brains are really everything”: Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -- 3. “A plumber’s idea of Cleopatra”: Mae West as Author -- 4. “Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island”: L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Early Hollywood -- 5. “The best product of this century”: Margaret Kennedy’s The Constant Nymph -- 6. “Literature or just sheer fl apdoodle?”: Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm -- 7. “Wildest hopes exceeded”: E. M. Delafi eld’s Diary of a Provincial Lady -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private lives came to fascinate readers as much as their work. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars profiles seven American, Canadian, and British women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who achieved literary celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work remains popular even today. Faye Hammill investigates how the fame and commercial success of these writers—as well as their gender—affected the literary reception of their work. She explores how women writers sought to fashion their own celebrity images through various kinds of public performance and how the media appropriated these writers for particular cultural discourses. She also reassesses the relationship between celebrity culture and literary culture, demonstrating how the commercial success of these writers caused literary elites to denigrate their writing as "middlebrow," despite the fact that their work often challenged middle-class ideals of marriage, home, and family and complicated class categories and lines of social discrimination. The first comparative study of North American and British literary celebrity, Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars offers a nuanced appreciation of the middlebrow in relation to modernism and popular culture. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) American literature Women authors History and criticism. Authors and readers History 20th century. Authorship Economic aspects History 20th century. English literature Women authors History and criticism. Fame Economic aspects History 20th century. Popular culture History 20th century. Women and literature History 20th century. Women authors, American 20th century Biography. Women authors, English 20th century Biography. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/716445 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292794870 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292794870/original |
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