Writing Celebrity [electronic resource] : Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning /
Galow, T.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Contexts : literary modernism in the age of celebrity -- pt. 2. From Toklas to everybody : Gertrude Stein between autobiographies -- pt. 3. The crack-up of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940
Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
America—Literatures.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Cultural studies.
Fiction.
North American Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural Studies.
Fiction.