Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars /

Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars / / Faye Hammill.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Hammill, Faye,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Literary Modernism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (271 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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