{"product_id":"clemence-dane-and-good-housekeeping-modernity-and-common-reading-9781399516907","title":"Clemence Dane and Good Housekeeping: Modernity and Common Reading","description":"\u003ci\u003eClemence Dane and \u003c\/i\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003ci\u003e: Modernity and Common Reading \u003c\/i\u003eexamines Dane's tenure as a literary critic for \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e between 1923 and 1933, firmly locating it within a vibrant interwar periodical culture. By expressing confidence in a shared literary heritage, modelling enjoyment of a wide variety of literature and linking women's reading habits to the revitalisation of national literary culture, Dane's serial essays implicitly challenged academic and modernist approaches to literature. Moreover, Dane's monthly book pages, in dialogue with book authors and with other feminist contributors, fulfilled and exceeded \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e's mission by preparing women for their new responsibilities as British citizens. Dane's journalism sheds new light on the heterogeneity intrinsic to quality domestic magazines and the roles they played in fostering women's multi-faceted modern identities. Stella Deen demonstrates that Dane's corpus of \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e essays makes a significant contribution to the conceptualisation of the common reader and to the history of twentieth-century literary criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeen, Stella:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Stella Deen is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Her research focuses on literary journalism, periodical culture, and middlebrow and modernist studies. Recent publications include 'Remarkable Obscurity: Group Portraits of Professional Women Between the Wars' in \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf: Profession and Performance\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming, 2024); 'Cultivating Citizen Readers: Clemence Dane's Historical Essays in \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e' (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern Periodical Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2019); and 'Clemence Dane's Literary Criticism for \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e: Cultivating a \"Small, Comical, Lovable, Eternal Public\" of Book Lovers' (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eEdinburgh Companion to Women's Print Media in Interwar Britain, 1918-1939\u003c\/i\u003e, 2017\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e. Her first book, \u003ci\u003eChallenging Modernism: New Readings in Literature and Culture 1914-45\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2002.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298516828434,"sku":"9781399516907","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e61da5dd-ddc1-4212-bc04-5ca3db747960.jpg?v=1747825038","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/clemence-dane-and-good-housekeeping-modernity-and-common-reading-9781399516907","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}