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This dissertation considers how modernist impulses combine with an array of other commitments and strategies in the work of three women writers---Mina Loy, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Dorothy Parker---in ways that shed light on modernism's vexed but at times productive relationship with mass culture. Negotiating various avant-garde, traditional, and mass cultural affiliations, Loy, Millay, and Parker created work that troubles the dividing lines often drawn in discussions of modernism between ironic and sentimental, experimental and traditional, and high and low art. Their skill at combining influences from their multiple affiliations enabled these writers to create feminist revisions of both modern irony and traditional sentiment. 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