Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Middlebrow and Comedy: Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim's Cultural and Literary Context
- 2 A Comedic ‘Response’ to War? Elizabeth von Arnim's Christopher and Columbus (1919) and Mr Skeffington (1940), and Elizabeth Taylor's At Mrs Lippincote's (1945)
- 3 ‘One Begins to See what is Meant by “They Lived Happily Ever After”’: Elizabeth von Arnim's Vera (1921) and Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian (1946)
- 4 ‘One Shudders to Think what a Less Sophisticated Artist would have Made of It’: The Comedy of Age in Elizabeth von Arnim's Love (1925) and Elizabeth Taylor's In a Summer Season (1961)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Notes
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Middlebrow and Comedy: Elizabeth Taylor and Elizabeth von Arnim's Cultural and Literary Context
- 2 A Comedic ‘Response’ to War? Elizabeth von Arnim's Christopher and Columbus (1919) and Mr Skeffington (1940), and Elizabeth Taylor's At Mrs Lippincote's (1945)
- 3 ‘One Begins to See what is Meant by “They Lived Happily Ever After”’: Elizabeth von Arnim's Vera (1921) and Elizabeth Taylor's Palladian (1946)
- 4 ‘One Shudders to Think what a Less Sophisticated Artist would have Made of It’: The Comedy of Age in Elizabeth von Arnim's Love (1925) and Elizabeth Taylor's In a Summer Season (1961)
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow NovelElizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor, pp. 125 - 146Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014