The world through a monocle : the New Yorker at midcentury / Mary F. Corey.
The world through a monocle : the New Yorker at midcentury / Mary F. Corey.
The world through a monocle : the New Yorker at midcentury / Mary F. Corey.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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T0382619
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiv, 251 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Preface: First Things -- 1. The Lay of the Land -- 2. Beyond the Manhattan Skyline -- 3. Red Hunting and the New Yorker Village -- 4. Slouching toward Anti-Communism -- 5. The New Yorker in Black and White -- 6. The Romance of the Other -- 7. Managing with Servants -- 8. The War between Men and Wome...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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Summary
Mary Corey mines the magazine's mix of journalism, fiction, advertisements, cartoons, and poetry to unearth a kind of New Yorker Village - a locale of contradiction and delight, of self-importance and social justice. She exposes a magazine with blind spots in regard to women and to racial and ethnic stereotyping, but which nevertheless strove towar...
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The world through a monocle : the New Yorker at midcentury / Mary F. Corey.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-242) and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transferred from N051/29.
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T0382619
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74VvXx3xy4Ld
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0674961935
9780674961937 (alk. paper)
0674961935 (alk. paper)
9780674961937 :
0674961935 :
9780674961937
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051
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991011156679702626
