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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.

Copies

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)