Jean Lee Cole

Bio

Jean Lee Cole is Professor Emerita in the English Department at Loyola University Maryland. She is most recently the author of How the Other Half Laughs: The Comic Sensibility in American Culture, 1895-1920 (2020). She is also the author of The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity (2002), co-editor (with Charles Mitchell) of Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays (2008), and senior consultant for the Winnifred Eaton Archive (www.winnifredeatonarchive.org).

Contributions

Repulsive Women: Djuna Barnes and Others in the American Periodical Press, 1900–1915

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The experimental fiction of Djuna Barnes seems radically removed from the world of comic art. Her early career working in the yellow press is frequently dismissed as the by-product of an understandable if unseemly attraction for mass culture; Barnes, after all, was just a teenager at the time and had just moved to New York City. Others rationalize her early career as hack work done simply to ingratiate herself in New York’s social-intellectual scene and to pay the bills. Barnes’s biographer...

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