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WRITING CELEBRITY
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PRELUDE
PART I
Contexts: Literary Modernism in the Age of Celebrity
CHAPTER 1
Critical Histories: The Changing Face of Literature, 1870–1920
PRINT MARKETS, POPULAR CULTURE, AND MASCULINITY IN THE LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY UNITED STATES
“HIGH” ART AND THE EMERGENCE OF LITERARY MODERNISM
THE RISE OF A NATIONAL CELEBRITY CULTURE
CELEBRITY AND THE LITERARY FIELD
CHAPTER 2
Critical Reassessments: Celebrity, Modernism, and the Literary Field in the 1920s and 1930s
CELEBRITY AND TEXTUAL RECEPTION
CELEBRITY, TEXTUAL PRODUCTION, AND PROMOTION
CELEBRITY AND AUTHORSHIP
“MODERN” AUTHORSHIP: FROM THE LATE WORK OF STEIN AND FITZGERALD
MODERNISM IN THE DEPRESSION
PART II
From Toklas to Everybody: Gertrude Stein between Autobiographies
GERTRUDE STEIN AND HER CRITICS
CHAPTER 3
The Celebrity Speaks: Gertrude Stein’s Aesthetic Theories after The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
THE FIRST YEAR OF FAME
THE LECTURES
GERTRUDE STEIN AND HER CRITICS REVISITED
CHAPTER 4
After the Tour: Naturalized Aesthetics and Systematized Contradictions
ON THEORY AND PRACTICE: LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE NEXT AUTOBIOGRAPHY
GERTRUDE STEIN’S EVERYBODY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE ART OF CONTRADICTIONS
PART III
The Crack-Up of F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD AND HIS CRITICS
CHAPTER 5
On the Limitations of Image Management: The Long Shadow of “F. Scott Fitzgerald”
THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PERSONA (1920–1926)
THE FALLOUT OF CELEBRITY (1926–1940)
CHAPTER 6
The “Crack-Up” Essays: Masculine Identity, Modernism, and the Dissolution of Literary Values
THE CRACK-UP, CONTRADICTIONS, AND THE CHALLENGES OF “MODERN” AUTHORSHIP
THE PAST AND THE PRESENT: FITZGERALD’S NARRATOR AS LITERARY MAN
“BEING A WRITER ONLY”: SOLUTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS
CREATIVE FREEDOM AND MASCULINE CRISIS
MASCULINITY AND THE NEGATIVE RESPONSE TO THE CRACK-UP
EPILOGUE
NOTES
PART I CONTEXTS: LITERARY MODERNISM IN THE AGE OF CELEBRITY
1 CRITICAL HISTORIES: THE CHANGING FACE OF LITERATURE, 1870–1920
2 CRITICAL REASSESSMENTS: CELEBRITY, MODERNISM, AND THE LITERARY FIELD IN THE 1920S AND 1930S
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
4 AFTER THE TOUR: NATURALIZED AESTHETICS AND SYSTEMATIZED CONTRADICTIONS
PART III THE CRACK-UP OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
5 ON THE LIMITATIONS OF IMAGE MANAGEMENT: THE LONG SHADOW OF “F. SCOTT FITZGERALD”
6 THE “CRACK-UP” ESSAYS: MASCULINE IDENTITY, MODERNISM, AND THE DISSOLUTION OF LITERARY VALUES
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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