Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor
Author:   Erica Brown
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   3
ISBN:  

9781138664647


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor


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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.

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Author:   Erica Brown
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138664647


ISBN 10:   1138664642
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Middlebrow and Comedy: Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth Von Arnim’s Cultural and Literary Context; Chapter 2 A Comedic ‘Response’ to War? Elizabeth Von Arnim’s Christopher and Columbus (1919) and Mr Skeffington (1940), and Elizabeth Taylor’s at Mrs Lippincote’s (1945); Chapter 3 ‘One Begins to See What is Meant by “They Lived Happily Ever after”’: Elizabeth Von Arnim’s Vera (1921) and Elizabeth Taylor’s Palladian (1946); Chapter 4 ‘One Shudders to Think What a Less Sophisticated Artist Would Have Made of It’: The Comedy of Age in Elizabeth Von Arnim’s Love (1925) and Elizabeth Taylor’s in a Summer Season (1961); Conclusion;

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