Writing celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the modern(ist) art of self-fashioning

Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part tracesthe rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on 'literary' writing in the decades before World War II. The second two sections of the book demonstrate the relevance of celebrity for literary scholarship by re-evaluating the careers of two major American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. TIMOTHY W. GALOW is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA. INDICE: PART I: CONTEXTS: LITERARY MODERNISM IN THE AGE OF CELEBRITY - Critical Histories: The Changing Face of Literature, 1870-1920 - Critical Reassessments: Celebrity, Modernism, and the Literary Field in the 1920s and 30s - PART II: FROM TOKLAS TO EVERYBODY: GERTRUDE STEIN BETWEEN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES - The Celebrity Speaks: Gertrude Stein's Aesthetic Theories After The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas - After the Tour: Naturalized Aesthetics and Systematized Contradictions - PART III: THE CRACK-UP OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD - On the Limitations of Image Management: The Long Shadow of 'F. Scott Fitzgerald' - The 'Crack-Up' Essays: Masculine Identity, Modernism, and the Dissolution of Literary Values -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11271-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 252
• Fecha Publicación: 10/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés