{"product_id":"playing-smart-new-york-women-writers-and-modern-magazine-culture-paperback-softback-9780813551784","title":"Playing Smart; New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813551784","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlaying Smart\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine Keyser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813551784\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 September 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e242 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.367 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"With a sense of humor and style, and a smartness of her own, Keyser takes up the cause and the career of a 'smart' set of women writers who made a distinct mark on modern American culture.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Maria DiBattista (author of Fast Talking Dames) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Keyser's book is a pleasure to read not only because it is incisive and informative, but also because the writer's own wit is everywhere apparent. Her sparkling prose, wedding style, and critical acumen shows Keyser to be an accomplished student of the writers she studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Clio) \u003cdiv\u003e\"It is, academically speaking, a smart book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Keyser contributes invaluable insights into how women crafted professional and public identities in the pages of American periodicals at the turn of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (Legacy: A Journal of American Woman Writers)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eSmart women, sophisticated ladies, savvy writers\u003c\/i\u003e . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, and others imagined New York as a place where they could claim professional status, define urban independence, and shrug off confining feminine roles. It might be said that during the 1920s and 1930s these literary artists painted the town red on the pages of magazines like \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003ePlaying Smart\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Keyser's homage to their literary genius, is a captivating celebration of their causes and careers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough humor writing, this \"smart set\" expressed both sides of the story-promoting their urbanity and wit while using irony and caricature to challenge feminine stereotypes. Their fiction raised questions about what it meant to be a woman in the public eye, how gender roles would change because men and women were working together, and how the growth of the magazine industry would affect women's relationships to their bodies and minds. Keyser provides a refreshing and informative chronicle, saluting the value of being \"smart\" as incisive and innovative humor showed off the wit and talent of women writers and satirized the fantasy world created by magazines.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Thoroughly Modern Millay and Her Middlebrow Masquerades\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"\u003cbr\u003eThis Unfortunate Exterior\"\u003cbr\u003e: Dorothy Parker, the Female Body, and Strategic Doubling\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"\u003cbr\u003eFirst Aid to Laughter\"\u003cbr\u003e: Jessie Fauset and the Racial Politics of Smartness\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Indestructible Glamour Girl: Dawn Powell, Celebrity, and Counterpublics\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"\u003cbr\u003eScratch a Socialist and You Find a Snob\"\u003cbr\u003e: Mary McCarthy, Irony, and Politics\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559300395288,"sku":"9780813551784","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/playing-smart-new-york-women-writers-and-modern-magazine-culture-paperback-softback-9780813551784","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}