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Offers a new way of reading Stein's key publications: as responses to the politics of authorship and aesthetic participation Tackles the problem of Stein's politics and challenges the scholarly tradition that reads Stein's writing as 'democratic' by setting her texts firmly in the context of twentieth-century democracy Explores intersections between discourses of the author and the rights-bearing subject and between aesthetic and democratic participation Explores the way discourses of biological sciences and pseudo-sciences such as eugenics, as well as those of politics, law and education are mediated in literary conceptions of authorship This book explores the politics of the right to write in Gertrude Stein's practice and its reception. It examines how conceptions of authorship intersected discourses of democracy and rights in the period 1909-1933. The persistent debates across a broad range of publication contexts over Gertrude Stein's right to participate in modernist authorship provide an instructive example of the way literary culture reflected contemporary political discussion. This study explores how representations of Stein that figured her either as barely human or as the ultimate democratic subject reproduced debates about who should participate in public life, refracted an emerging discourse of human rights, and echoed fears about the consequences of mass democracy as political franchise was extended.

Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation: Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909 1933

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Offers a new way of reading Stein's key publications: as responses to the politics of authorship and aesthetic participation Tackles... Read more

    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 10/01/2023
    ISBN13: 9781474484329, 978-1474484329
    ISBN10: 1474484328

    Number of Pages: 264

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    Offers a new way of reading Stein's key publications: as responses to the politics of authorship and aesthetic participation Tackles the problem of Stein's politics and challenges the scholarly tradition that reads Stein's writing as 'democratic' by setting her texts firmly in the context of twentieth-century democracy Explores intersections between discourses of the author and the rights-bearing subject and between aesthetic and democratic participation Explores the way discourses of biological sciences and pseudo-sciences such as eugenics, as well as those of politics, law and education are mediated in literary conceptions of authorship This book explores the politics of the right to write in Gertrude Stein's practice and its reception. It examines how conceptions of authorship intersected discourses of democracy and rights in the period 1909-1933. The persistent debates across a broad range of publication contexts over Gertrude Stein's right to participate in modernist authorship provide an instructive example of the way literary culture reflected contemporary political discussion. This study explores how representations of Stein that figured her either as barely human or as the ultimate democratic subject reproduced debates about who should participate in public life, refracted an emerging discourse of human rights, and echoed fears about the consequences of mass democracy as political franchise was extended.

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