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

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[ v ] ss Contents [][][][] Acknowledgments vii Introduction: A Genealogy of Political Domestic Fiction 1 chapter one. Progressive Middlebrow: Dorothy Canfield, Reform, and Women’s Magazines 23 chapter two. Miscegenating Middlebrow: Jessie Fauset and the “Authentic” Black Middle Class 53 chapter three. Multicultural Middlebrow: Pearl Buck and the Liberal Iconography of The Good Earth 87 chapter four. Proletarian Middlebrow: Josephine Herbst, Radicalism, and Bourgeois Redemption 115 Afterword: Consequences and Transformations 147 Notes 159 Works Cited 167 Index 177 ...