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The making of Americans in Paris : the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sloboda, Noel
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2008]
Series:American university studies. American literature. v. 77.
Subjects:
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946.
Women authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography > Women authors.
Americans > France > Paris > History > 20th century.
Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
World War, 1914-1918 > Literature and the war.
Modernism (Literature)
Wharton, Edith, > 1862-1937. > Backward glance.
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946. > Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Table of Contents:
  • Wharton and Stein : fact and fiction
  • Glory in the writing life and glory in writing the life
  • Hometown Paris
  • Lessons from and for Henry James
  • Wartime tragedy and opportunity
  • Epilogue.