TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Erica
TI  - Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth Von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor
T2  - Literary Texts and the Popular Marketplace Series
SN  - 9781317320746
AV  - PN56.H83.B76 2013 
U1  - 823.912099287 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Middlebrow and Comedy: Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim's Cultural and Literary Context -- 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) -- 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) -- 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 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
N2  - 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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