Edna Ferber's America.
Title:
Edna Ferber's America.
Author:
McGraw, Eliza.
ISBN:
9780807151891
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (144 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Girls: Dawn O'Hara and Fanny Herself -- 2. Wheat and Emeralds: The Girls and So Big -- 3. A Pinprick of Blood: Show Boat -- 4. The Cowboys, the Indians, and the Jew: Cimarron -- 5. Coloring the Blue Bloods: American Beauty and Come and Get It -- 6. Passing Fancy: Saratoga Trunk -- 7. Big Spaces, Big Problems: Giant -- Conclusion: The Great White North, Great Son and Ice Palace -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
From the 1910s to the 1950s, Edna Ferber (1885--1968) published a series of bestselling novels that made her one of Doubleday's highest-paid authors, earned her a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1925, and transformed her into a literary celebrity. She hosted dinner parties covered by the New York Times, lunched at the Algonquin Round Table with Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott, and collaborated with George S. Kaufman on hit plays such as Dinner at Eight and Stage Door. In Edna Ferber's America, Eliza McGraw provides the first in-depth critical study of the author's novels, exploring their innovative portrayals of characters from a diverse range of ethnicities and social classes.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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