Modernist star maps : celebrity, modernity, culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Jaffe, Aaron, Goldman, Jonathan (Jonathan E.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) > United States. Popular culture > United States > 20th century. Celebrities > United States > 20th century. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain. Popular culture > Great Britain > 20th century. Celebrities > Great Britain > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Aaron Jaffe and Jonathan Goldman
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 manqué / Loren Glass
Gertrude Stein's currency / Deborah M. Mix
Modernist celebrities/modernist vernaculars. Garbo's glamour / Judith Brown
In good company: modernism, celebrity, and sophistication and Vanity fair / Faye Hammill
Reaching for stars: Jean de Tinan's "Essay on Cléo de Mérode 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.