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Modernist star maps : celebrity, modernity, culture / edited by Aaron Jaffe and Jonathan Goldman. - Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, 2010. - xi, 265 p. 24 cm.

Includes index.

Introduction / Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe -- Celebrity modernisms. Adolescent Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde's proto-picture of modernist celebrity / Lois Cucullu -- Orlando Pimpernel / Aaron Jaffe -- Imposture in The great Gatsby -- Allan Hepburn -- There has been an inward change: in search of Eric Walrond / James C. Davis -- Erskine Caldwell: modernist manqueÌ / Loren Glass -- Gertrude Stein's currency / Deborah Mix -- Modernist celebrities and their vernaculars. Garbo's glamour / Judith Brown -- In good company: sophistication and Vanity fair / Faye Hammill -- Reaching for stars: Jean de Tinan's "Essay on CleÌo de MeÌrode considered as popular symbol" / Michael D. Garval -- Leni's Hitler/Hitler's Leni / Annalisa Zox-Weaver -- Four Elvises / Edward P. Comentale -- Stellar afterimages. Modernism is the age of Chaplin / Jonathan Goldman -- On retrofitting: Samuel Beckett, tourist attraction / Stephen Watt -- Defiling celebrity / Steven Connor -- Afterword / Nancy Armstrong.

ISBN: 9780754666103 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010003478

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Popular culture--United States--20th century.
Celebrities--United States--20th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Popular culture--Great Britain--20th century.
Celebrities--Great Britain--20th century.

LC Class. No.: PS228.M63 / M63 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 700/.4112