America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship Between the Wars

by Jaime Harker

Book Overview

Between the two world wars, American publishing entered a "golden age" characterized by an explosion of new publishers, authors, audiences, distribution strategies, and marketing techniques. The period was distinguished by a diverse literary culture, ranging from modern cultural rebels to working-class laborers, political radicals, and progressive housewives. In America the Middlebrow, Jaime Harker focuses on one neglected mode of authorship in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558495975
• ISBN13: 9781558495975
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.9"