Writing celebrity : Stein, Fitzgerald, and the modern(ist) art of self-fashioning / Timothy W. Galow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galow, Timothy W.

Series:

American literature readings in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Criticism and interpretation.

Fame--Social aspects.

History.

Celebrities.

United States.

Celebrities--United States--History--20th century.

Fame--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Fame.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946--Criticism and interpretation.

Stein, Gertrude.

Physical Description:

xv, 235 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Contexts: Literary Modernism in the Age of Celebrity

1 Critical Histories: The Changing Face of Literature, 1870-1920 5

2 Critical Reassessments: Celebrity, Modernism, and the Literary Field in the 1920s and 1930s 23

Part II From Toklas to Everybody: Gertrude Stein between Autobiographies

3 The Celebrity Speaks: Gertrude Stein's Aesthetic Theories after The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 53

4 After the Tour: Naturalized Aesthetics and Systematized Contradictions 81

Part III The Crack-Up of F. Scott Fitzgerald

5 On the Limitations of Image Management: The Long Shadow of "F. Scott Fitzgerald" 121

6 The "Crack-Up" Essays: Masculine Identity, Modernism, and the Dissolution of Literary Values 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-230) and index.

ISBN:

9780230112711

0230112714

OCLC:

682891242