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Copyright © 2007 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America lc 2007004497 isbn978-1-55849-597-5 (paper); 596-8 (library cloth) Designed by Kristina Kachele Design Ltd. Set in Cycles Eleven and Nine, Franklin Gothic Book, by dix! Digital Prepress Printed and bound by The Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harker, Jaime. America the middlebrow : women’s novels, progressivism, and middlebrow authorship between the wars / Jaime Harker. p. cm.—(Studies in print culture and the history of the book) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. isbn978-1-55849-596-8 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)—isbn978-1-55849-597-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American fiction—Women authors—History and criticism. 2. American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 3. Progressivism in literature. 4. Sentimentalism in literature. 5. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879–1958—Criticism and interpretation. 6. Fauset, Jessie Redmon—Criticism and interpretation. 7. Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892–1973—Criticism and interpretation. 8. Herbst, Josephine, 1892–1969—Criticism and interpretation. 9. Popular literature—United States—History and criticism. 10. Women and literature—United States—History—20th century. I. Title. PS374.W6H37 2007 813'.52099287—dc22 2007004497 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. ...

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