Maria DiBattista Books
High & Low Moderns: Literature & Culture 1889-1939: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939
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This collection of essays on modernist culture reassesses the convergence of low and high cultures, of socialist and aesthete, late Victorian and young Georgian, the popular and the coterie. Academ...
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Fast-Talking Dames
""There is nothing like a dame," proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast-talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and 40s. In this engaging book, film sc...
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At home in the world
In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active eng...
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Novel characters
"Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the "birth of the novel" in Don Quixote, through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentie...
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