| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women. By Nina Miller. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xii, 292 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-19-511604-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-19-511605-4.)

Nina Miller looks at "love poetry, that most 'feminine' and quietistic of genres," to think about how several women writers in the first decades of the twentieth century were both freed and constrained by their participation in newly available public arenas, specifically Greenwich Village bohemia, the Algonquin Round Table, and the Harlem Renaissance. This moment and these circles are often rendered as clichés, but her detailed analysis of the three subcultures and their exemplary women writers—Edna St. Vincent Millay, Genevieve Taggard, Dorothy Parker, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson—is a provocative contribution to feminist studies of modernism and modernity. . . .

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