Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture

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banter: and counterpublics, 15, 19, 130–131, 136; and femininity, 43, 80, 160–161; and interracial communication, 89, 97–98, 105; in romance plots, 102; in television series, 177–178 “The Barrel” (Millay), 29–31 Barrett, William, 141–142, 202n18 Baughman, James, 201n42 Beard, Mary Ritter, 38 The Bell Jar (Plath), 175–176 Benchley, Robert, 71–72, 87; “The Noon Telephone Operator,” 72 Bender, Thomas, 16, 185n46 Benjamin, Walter, 3, 114–115, 117–118, 126 Bennett, Gwendolyn B., 96; “To Usward,” 96 Bergson, Henri, 5, 7, 75 Berlant, Lauren, 9–10, 53, 184n40, 191n23 Berman, Marshall, 168, 204n37, 206n62 “The Bewitched Sword” (Morehead), 85 Birken, Lawrence, 189n72 Bishop, John Peale, 43 Bodenheim, Maxwell, 112 body-mind divide, 13–15, 44, 56, 72–75 Bogan, Louise, 112 Bonaparte, Pauline, 14–15, 32 Booth, Wayne, 12 Botshon, Lisa, 182n20, 183n23 Bourdieu, Pierre, 151, 157, 203n27 Bowles, Eva D., 87; “Educated Colored Women,” 87 Adams, Franklin Pierce, 37–38; “The Conning Tower,” 38 advertisements, 29, 44, 46–47, 66–67, 84, 86–87, 101, 121, 187n31, 190n84 Advertising to Women (Naether), 14 “Advice to the Little Peyton Girl” (Parker), 56–57 African Americans: and class mobility, 80, 84, 97, 98; and consumer culture, 85–86, 87–88, 92, 101; and domesticity, 80, 86–87, 96–101, 109; and earnestness, 80, 86–87; and feminine roles, 80, 83, 86–87, 94, 100; and magazine industry, 83–89, 101, 182n3; and middle-class culture, 80, 84, 85–86, 92, 96, 98; and professional identity, 82, 97–100; and stereotypes, 79–80; wit of, 81, 89. See also Harlem Renaissance; race Ainslee’s, Millay in, 21, 40 Algonquin Round Table, 53, 63, 66, 81, 89, 112 “Are Women People?” (A. Miller), 39 “Arrangement in Black and White” (Parker), 89, 106–108 Art Deco, 27, 51, 64, 88 “The Avant-Garde and Kitsch” (Greenberg), 149, 151, 158 Baker, Russell, 38 Index 218 / index 134–36, 175; and leftist politics, 141, 159, 162, 167–168 Cooney, Terry, 145, 147, 203n20 Cosmopolitan, Ephron in, 176 cosmopolitanism, 16–17, 90, 95, 152 counterpublics, 7–8, 111, 126–131 Covarrubias, Miguel, 89 Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women (Ephron), 176 Crisis: 84–87, 105, 108; depiction of in There Is Confusion, 99–100; Fauset in, 79, 94–96 cross-gender identification, 70, 123 Crowninshield, Frank, 63 Cudlippe, Thelma, 21 Cukor, George, 178 cultural hierarchy/stratification, 10–11, 62, 111–113, 120–126, 149–152, 166 Cummings, E. E., 25, 112, 184n35 cynicism: Fauset’s use of, 98–99; Millay’s use of, 22, 29–30; as passivity, 137; and politics, 146, 148, 164; Powell’s use of, 123, 126–131, 140 “Daphne” (Millay), 40 “Dark Algiers the White” (Fauset), 95 Davis, Simone Weil, 5, 29, 182n13, 184n41, 191n22 decadence, 74, 86, 123 de Hayenon, Georgia Riley, 186n20 Dell, Floyd, 112 detachment, 9, 16, 166–167, 176 The Devil Wears Prada (Weisberger), 173–174, 178 Dewey, John, 163–164 Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations, 70; Nicholas Nickleby, 70 Dickstein, Morris, 205n55 Diogenes the Cynic, 29–30 Distressing Dialogues (Millay), 21, 31–37, 44–48 “The Doll” (Wylie), 21 domesticity, 36–37, 80, 86–87, 96–101, 109, 116–117 Dos Passos, John, 112, 184n35 double roles: Long’s use of, 62–63; Loos’s use of, 63–65; Millay’s use of, 36, 46, 63; Parker’s use of, 58–59, 69, 70–71, 76–77; and smartness, 6 Douglas, Ann, 26, 113, 185n45, 187n29 Douglas, George H., 5 “A Box to Hide In” (Thurber), 72 Boyd, Nancy. See Millay, Edna St. Vincent Boyle, Kay, 112 Brightman, Carol, 141 Bringing Up Father (McManus), 168 Brooke, Rupert, 1 Brown, Judith, 191n19 The Brownies’ Book, 94 Bruère, Martha Bensley, 38 Burstein, Jessica, 191n17 But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (Loos), 63, 66 “Buyers of Dreams” (Caution), 86 Campbell, E. Simms, 89 Carby, Hazel, 196n43, 196n62 Caution, Ethel M., 86; “Buyers of Dreams,” 86 celebrity, 114–126; and African American middle-class, 92–93, 98; and body, 14, 58–59, 60–63, 71, 119; and exposure, 117–119, 128, 138–139; and identification, 57–59, 67, 128–129; and masculinity, 121, 123, 125; of woman writer, 17, 24–26, 60–63, 66–68, 70–71, 76, 94–96, 132–133 Chamberlain, John, 163 Chambers, Ross, 181n4 Chappell, George S., 28 A Charmed Life (McCarthy), 146 Chase, Edna Woolman, 53 Chauncey, George, 32, 33 The Chinaberry Tree (Fauset), 100–103, 131 “Christmas Dance: 1922” (Hoyt), 24 Churchwell, Sarah, 14 class: and African American femininity, 80–81, 89–94...