{"product_id":"modernism-is-the-literature-of-celebrity-literary-modernism-9780292723399","title":"Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity Literary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoldman's thesis is ably pursued and very useful. He situates 'celebrity' as the 'missing link' between high and low culture in modernism, and I think he has a point. * James Joyce Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Critical Problem Solving: Modernism and Popular Culture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Field of Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Considering Celebrity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Why Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Oscar Wilde, Fashioning Fame\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Copying Oneself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Judging By Appearances in \u003ci\u003eDorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Tragic Commodity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Deep Thoughts: Embodying the Subject in \u003ci\u003eDe Profundis\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. James Joyce and Modernist Exceptionalism\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Styling the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \"Peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \"Famous Son of a Famous Father\": Author, Character, Holy Ghost\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Dream of Immateriality\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e E.T.: The Extra-Textual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Ghost of the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Celebrity\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Elite By Association\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Unstable Values\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Trademark of Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Name of Constant Value\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e A Democracy of One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. Charlie Chaplin, Author of Modernist Celebrity\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Happy Endings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e An Author Is Born\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Sign of the Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Object of Celebrity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. Rhys, the Obscure: The Literature of Celebrity at the Margins\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e That Obscure Abject of Desire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eBildung\u003c\/i\u003e in the Dark\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Hidden Rhys\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Wide Sargasso City\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Posthuman Beings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Celebrity on the Margins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue. \"Everybody who was anybody was there\": After Modernism, After Celebrity, John Dos Passos\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Camera, I\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The In Crowd\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stein and They, Hemingway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e and Hem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400858280279,"sku":"9780292723399","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292723399.jpg?v=1730471760","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernism-is-the-literature-of-celebrity-literary-modernism-9780292723399","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}