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Imitations of life : Fannie Hurst's gaslight sonatas
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ISBN: 0585128618 9780585128610 9780809386635 0809386631 0809321424 9780809321421 0809329085 9780809329083 Year: 2009 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,

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In the early 1920's, Fannie Hurst's enormous popularity made her the highest-paid writer in America. She conquered the literary scene at the same time the silent movie industry began to emerge as a tremendously profitable and popular form of entertainment. Abe C. Ravitz parallels Hurst's growing acclaim with the evolution of silent films, from which she borrowed ideas and techniques that furthered her career. Ravitz notes that Hurst was amazingly adept at anticipating what the public wanted. Sensing that the national interest was shifting from rural to urban subjects, Hurst set her


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The school of femininity : a book for and about women as they are interpreted through feminine writers of yesterday and today
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Year: 1966 Publisher: Washington Kennikat Press

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Imitation of life : Douglas Sirk director
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ISBN: 0813516447 0813516455 Year: 1991 Volume: 16 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,


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The middle class in the Great Depression : popular women's novels of the 1930s
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ISBN: 9781137309167 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Palgrave Macmillan

Influencing America's tastes : realism in the works of Wharton, Cather, and Hurst
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ISBN: 0813024803 9780813024806 Year: 2002 Publisher: Gainesville [etc.] University Press of Florida

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