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Author Miller, Nina, 1958-

Title Making love modern : the intimate public worlds of New York's literary women / Nina Miller.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1999, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.99287 M616m 1999    ---  Available
Description ix, 292 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-284) and index.
Contents Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Love in Greenwich Village : Genevieve Taggard and the Bohemian ideal -- Aestheticized love and sexual violence -- The Algonquin round table and the politics of sophistication -- "Oh, do sit down, I've got so much to tell you!": Dorthy Parker and her intimate public -- "The new (and newer) Negro(es)": generational conflict in the Harlem Renaissance -- "Exalting Negro womanhood": performance and cultural responsibility for the middle-class heroine -- "Our younger Negro (women) artists": Gwendolyn Bennett and Helene Johnson.
Subject American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Women and literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.
Love poetry, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.
Modernism (Literature) -- New York (State) -- New York.
Feminist poetry -- History and criticism.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
ISBN 0195116046 (alk. paper)
0195116054 (alk. paper)

 
    
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