Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel write by Erica Brown. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life.
Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel
Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel write by Erica Brown. This book was released on 2015-10-06. Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life.
Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction
Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction write by Nicola Darwood. This book was released on 2020-01-10. Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays examines the work of five intermodernist writers. Some were established authors before the First World War and others continued to write after the Second World War, but this book focuses particularly on their writing between 1918 and 1939. Elizabeth von Arnim, Stella Benson, Bradda Field, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Stella Gibbons and Winifred Watson had much in common: they all wrote novels full of comic moments, which often challenged the cultural politics of the interwar period. Drawing on the literary and critical contexts of each novel, the essays here discuss the use of comic structures that enabled the authors to critique the dominant patriarchal structures of their time, and offer an alternative, sometimes subversive, view of the world in which their characters reside. This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in interwar fiction, focusing principally on novelists who have fallen out of public view. It widens our understanding both of the authors and of the continuing, highly topical debate about interwar women novelists.
Middlebrow Wodehouse
Middlebrow Wodehouse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Middlebrow Wodehouse write by Ann Rea. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Middlebrow Wodehouse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, attending to his self-conscious relationship to the literary marketplace and his role in moving musical comedy away from vaudeville’s lowbrow associations towards the sophistication of the Wodehouse style. The focus on the middlebrow creates a critical context for serious critical consideration of Wodehouse’s linguistic playfulness and his depictions of social class within England. The contributors explore Wodehouse’s fiction and libretti in reference to philosophy, depictions of masculinity, World War I Britain, the periodical market, ideas of Englishness, and cultural phenomena such as men’s fashion, food culture, and popular songwriting. Taken together, the essays draw attention to the arbitrary divide between high- and middlebrow culture and make a case for Wodehouse as a writer whose games with language are in keeping with modernist experimentation with artistic expression.
Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim
Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim write by Juliane Römhild. This book was released on 2014-06-25. Femininity and Authorship in the Novels of Elizabeth von Arnim available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Elizabeth von Arnim anonymously published her debut Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898), she became a literary star overnight. The mystery surrounding the identity of this witty aristocratic diarist in her romantic garden kept readers guessing: Who was Elizabeth? A Prussian Princess? The daughter of Queen Victoria? Throughout her long and successful career as one of England’s best satirical novelists, von Arnim never officially revealed her identity. Instead, to her readers and friends she simply became known as “Elizabeth.” From her first book to her capricious autobiography All the Dogs of My Life (1936), throughout her career von Arnim would explore questions of identity and self-representation. And in spite of von Arnim’s love of masquerades and guises, her books include funny and surprisingly personal meditations on the challenges of being a woman writer wrestling with a masculine literary tradition, of taking pride in one’s commercial success while moving in Modernist circles, and of being both a hard-working professional and an elegant hostess. In tracing the conflict between femininity and authorship in von Arnim’s works, this book engages with key literary issues of the time. Von Arnim’s early books offer a witty critique of New Woman fiction. Von Arnim’s self-positioning on the literary market and her relationships with writers like Katherine Mansfield, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf shed light on the relationship between middlebrow and modernist literature. Von Arnim’s complex autobiography, finally, gives a tentative answer to the all-important question: can a writing woman be a lady?
