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ONLINE

1st ed.

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007

1 online resource (viii, 261 p.)

ISBN 0292716443 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780292716445 (cloth : alk. paper)

Literary modernism series

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-249) and index

"How to tell the difference between a Matisse painting and a Spanish omelette" : Dorothy Parker, Vogue, and Vanity fair -- "Brains are really everything" : Anita Loos’s Gentlemen prefer blondes -- "A plumber’s idea of Cleopatra" : Mae West as author -- "Astronomers located her in the latitude of Prince Edward Island" : L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and early Hollywood -- "The best product of this century" : Margaret Kennedy’s The constant nymph -- "Literature or just sheer flapdoodle?": Stella Gibbons’s Cold Comfort Farm -- "Wildest hopes exceeded" : E. M. Delafield’s Diary of a provincial lady.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)646761248