Women of the Left Bank Paris, 1900-1940

Name: Women of the Left Bank Paris, 1900-1940
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ISBN: 9780292790407

ISBN-10: 0292790406

ISBN-13: 9780292790407

Edition: 1986

Authors: Shari Benstock

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Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock' critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century' early years. This ambitious historical, biographical, and critical study has taken its place among the foremost works of literary criticism. Maurice Beebe calls it "a distinguished contribution to modern literary history." Jane Marcus hails it as "the first serious literary history of the period and its women writers, making along the way no small contribution to our understanding of the…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 8/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 566
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

Shari Benstock is a professor of English & associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Miami. She is the author of several books, most recently "No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton." Along with Suzanne Ferriss, she edits "On Fashion" (Rutgers University Press, 1994).



Preface



Discoveries


Women of the Left Bank


Secret Passages: The Faubourg St. Germain


Simultaneous Existences: Four Lives in St. Germain


From the Left Bank to the Upper East Side: Janet Flanner's Letter from Paris



Settlements


Rue de Fleurus



Rue de l'OdTon



Djuna Barnes



Natalie Barney




Crossroads


En passant



At the Sign of the Printing Press: The Role of Small Presses and Little Magazines


Paris Transfer: The 1930s


The City They Left


Notes


Works Cited and Consulted


Index