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.
9780754666103 (hardback : alk. paper)
2010003478
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.