Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)

Writing Celebrity 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. Galow demonstrate the relevance of celebrity for literary scholarship by re-evaluating the careers of two major American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. Cover......Page 1 Titlepage......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Prelude......Page 12 Part I Contexts: Literary Modernism in the Age of Celebrity......Page 18 1 Critical Histories: The Changing Face of Literature, 1870–1920......Page 22 2 Critical Reassessments: Celebrity, Modernism, and the Literary Field in the 1920s and 1930s......Page 40 Part II From Toklas to Everybody: Gertrude Stein between Autobiographies......Page 60 3 The Celebrity Speaks: Gertrude Stein’s Aesthetic Theories after The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas......Page 70 4 After the Tour: Naturalized Aesthetics and Systematized Contradictions......Page 98 Part III The Crack-Up of F. Scott Fitzgerald......Page 128 5 On the Limitations of Image Management: The Long Shadow of “F. Scott Fitzgerald”......Page 138 6 The “Crack-Up” Essays: Masculine Identity, Modernism, and the Dissolution of Literary Values......Page 160 Epilogue......Page 192 Notes......Page 196 Bibliography......Page 234 Index......Page 248 "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