Modernist star maps
Subtitle: celebrity, modernity, culture
By: edited by Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe.
Contributors: Goldman, Jonathan.; Jaffe, Aaron.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754666103
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century; Celebrities -- United States -- 20th century; English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain; Popular culture -- Great Britain -- 20th century; Celebrities -- Great Britain -- 20th century
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe; title: Celebrity modernisms. Adolescent Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde's proto-picture of modernist celebrity / Lois Cucullu; title: Orlando Pimpernel / Aaron Jaffe; title: Imposture in The great Gatsby; title: Allan Hepburn; title: There has been an inward change: in search of Eric Walrond / James C. Davis; title: Erskine Caldwell: modernist manqué / Loren Glass; title: Gertrude Stein's currency / Deborah Mix; title: Modernist celebrities and their vernaculars. Garbo's glamour / Judith Brown; title: In good company: sophistication and Vanity fair / Faye Hammill; title: Reaching for stars: Jean de Tinan's "Essay on Cléo de Mérode considered as popular symbol" / Michael D. Garval; title: Leni's Hitler/Hitler's Leni / Annalisa Zox-Weaver; title: Four Elvises / Edward P. Comentale; title: Stellar afterimages. Modernism is the age of Chaplin / Jonathan Goldman; title: On retrofitting: Samuel Beckett, tourist attraction / Stephen Watt; title: Defiling celebrity / Steven Connor; title: Afterword / Nancy Armstrong.