Laura P. Claridge

A biography of a woman whose name has become synonymous with good manners describes the life and times of Emily Post, from her patrician upbringing in Baltimore and her social life in Gilded Age New York, to her scandalous divorce and writing career, to her creation of the best-selling classic, Etiquette. 35,000 first printing.

Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

Emily Post

sztuka i skandal

Tamara Łempicka

Tamara de Lempicka

Traces the life of the Russian painter who had to flee Bolshevik Russia and was notorious for her many affairs, and discusses the arguments over her merits as an artist

A Life of Deco and Decadence

Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized, nostalgic depictions of middleclass life have caused him to be considered not a serious artist but a “mere illustrator”–a disparagement only reinforced by the hundreds of memorable covers he drew for The Sunday Evening Post. Symptomatic of critics’ neglect is the fact that Rockwell has never before been the subject of a serious critical biography. Based on private family archives and interviews and publishes to coincide with a major two-year travelling retrospective of his work, this book reveals for the first time the driven workaholic who had three complicated marriages and was a distant father —so different from the loving, all-American-dad image widely held to this day. Critically acclaimed author Laura Claridge also breaks new ground with her reappraisal of Rockwell’s art, arguing that despite his popular sentimental style, his artistry was masterful, complex, and far more manipulative than people realize.

A Life

Norman Rockwell

Don Juan

Elizabeth Langland

Until recently, masculinity and its impact on literary production and reception have received scant attention in the field of literary criticism. Although critics certainly have been interested in examining gender, they have tended to be far more concerned with the feminine side of the equation than with the masculine. This book is an attempt to redress that imbalance. Positing that patriarchy victimizes men as well as women, the fifteen original essays in Out of Bounds explore how certain male writers from the American and British canon have responded to the confines of the masculine code. The contributors apply a wide range of critical approaches and probe the gendered perspective in a variety of telling ways.

Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism

Out of Bounds

The Paradox of Desire

Romantic Potency

Until recently, masculinity and its impact on literary production and reception has received scant attention in the field of literary criticism. Although critics certainly have been interested in examining gender, they have tended to be far more concerned with the feminine side of the equation than with the masculine. This book is an attempt to redress that imbalance.

Laura P. Claridge

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