Patricia E. Palermo

The Message of the City


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       THE MESSAGE OF THE CITY

       THE MESSAGE OF THE CITY

       Dawn Powell’s New York Novels, 1925–1962

       PATRICIA E. PALERMO

      SWALLOW PRESS

      Athens, Ohio

      Swallow Press

      An imprint of Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      © 2016 by Patricia E. Palermo

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Palermo, Patricia E., author.

      Title: The message of the city : Dawn Powell’s New York novels, 1925-1962 / Patricia E. Palermo.

      Other titles: Dawn Powell’s New York novels, 1925-1962

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2016004246| ISBN 9780804011679 (hardback) | ISBN 9780804011686 (pb) | ISBN 9780804040686 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Powell, Dawn—Criticism and interpretation. | Women and literature—United States—History—20th century. | Satire, American—History and criticism. | New York (N.Y.)—In literature. | Powell, Dawn. | Authors, American—20th century—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American /

      General. | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General.

      Classification: LCC PS3531.O936 Z85 2016 | DDC 813/.52—dc23

      LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016004246

      Excerpt from MRS. DALLOWAY by Virginia Woolf. Copyright 1925 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright © renewed 1953 by Leonard Woolf. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

      “The Great Figure” by William Carlos Williams, from THE COLLECTED POEMS: VOLUME I, 1909–1939, copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp.

      Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

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       CONTENTS

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Abbreviations

      CHAPTERS

       ONE. “Allow Me to Introduce You”

       TWO. “Hidden in Plain View”: An Overview of Her Life and Career

       Biographical Account

       Critical Reception

       The Dawn Powell Revivals

       THREE. “Every Artist Writes His Own Autobiography”: The Diaries, Letters, Short Stories, and Criticism

       The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931–1965

       Selected Letters of Dawn Powell, 1913–1965

       Short Stories, Essays, and Reviews

       Powell on Satire

       FOUR. “Mighty Things from Small Beginnings Grow”: The Early New York Novels, 1925–38

       Whither, 1925

       Turn, Magic Wheel, 1936

       The Happy Island, 1938

       FIVE. “An Affecting Self-Portrait of the Artist in Middle Age”: The Middle New York Novels, 1940–48

       Angels on Toast, 1940

       A Time to Be Born, 1942

       The Locusts Have No King, 1948

       SIX. “Either That Wallpaper Goes, or I Do”: The Late New York Novels, 1954–62

       The Wicked Pavilion, 1954

       The Golden Spur, 1962

       SEVEN. “Turn, Magic Wheel”: The Changing Fortunes of Dawn Powell

       Notes

       Works Cited

       Primary Sources

       Secondary Sources

       Index

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       Young Dawn Powell, with hand on heart

       Young Dawn Powell in profile, ca. 1920s

       Lobby card for Footlights and Shadows, 1920

       Ernest Truex and Spring Byington onstage in Jig Saw, 1934