Karen Leick is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University.
This book is a cultural history of Stein´s rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were much more well-known than has been previously acknowledged. Specifically, Leick reveals through the case study of Stein that the relationship between mass culture and modernism in America was less antagonistic, more productive and integrated than previous studies have suggested.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The 1910s: Experimental Art and the American Public
Chapter Three: The 1920s: Modernism and the Mainstream Press
Chapter Four: The 1930s: Bestselling Modernism
Conclusion: Stein and Hollywood
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Offers a cultural history of Stein's rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining the ways the popular portrayed Stein in her work, this book shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were well-known.
Über den Autor
Karen Leick is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The 1910s: Experimental Art and the American Public
Chapter Three: The 1920s: Modernism and the Mainstream Press
Chapter Four: The 1930s: Bestselling Modernism
Conclusion: Stein and Hollywood
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Klappentext
Offers a cultural history of Stein's rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining the ways the popular portrayed Stein in her work, this book shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were well-known.