America the middlebrow : women's novels, progressivism, and middlebrow authorship between the wars /

America the middlebrow : women's novels, progressivism, and middlebrow authorship between the wars / Jaime Harker.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harker, Jaime.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2007]
Series:Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Subjects:
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, > 1879-1958 > Criticism and interpretation.
Fauset, Jessie Redmon > Criticism and interpretation.
Buck, Pearl S. > (Pearl Sydenstricker), > 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation.
Herbst, Josephine, > 1892-1969 > Criticism and interpretation.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Progressivism in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Progressive middlebrow: Dorothy Canfield, reform, and women's magazines
  • Miscegenating middlebrow: Jessie Fauset and the "Authentic" black middle class
  • Multicultural middlebrow: Pearl Buck and the liberal iconography of The Good Earth
  • Proletarian middlebrow: Josephine Herbst, radicalism, and bourgeois redemption
  • Afterword: consequences and transformations.

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