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1 online resource (305 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction; ONE: Edna St. Vincent Millay; TWO: Love in Greenwich Village: Genevieve Taggard and the Bohemian Ideal; THREE: Aestheticized Love and Sexual Violence; FOUR: The Algonquin Round Table and the Politics of Sophistication; FIVE: "Oh, do sit down, I've got so much to tell you!": Dorothy Parker and Her Intimate Public; SIX: "The New (and Newer) Negro(es)": Generational Conflict in the Harlem Renaissance; SEVEN: "Exalting Negro Womanhood": Performance and Cultural Responsibility for the Middle-Class Heroine |
Summary |
In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways that were hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table, and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Enda St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colorful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson are hardly re |
Analysis |
American literature - New York (State) - New York - History and criticism |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-284) and index |
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American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York
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Love poetry, American -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Feminism and literature -- New York (State) -- New York
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Women and literature -- New York (State) -- New York
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Modernism (Literature) -- New York (State) -- New York
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Feminist poetry, American -- History and criticism
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Women authors, American -- Biography
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American literature
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American literature -- Women authors
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts
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Feminism and literature
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Feminist poetry, American
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Intellectual life
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Literature
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Love poetry, American -- Women authors
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Modernism (Literature)
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Women and literature
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Women authors, American
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New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005016
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New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
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New York (State) -- New York
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781602562172 |
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1602562172 |
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0585328447 |
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9780585328447 |
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0195353854 |
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9780195353853 |
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1280470100 |
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9781280470103 |
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