Timothy W. Galow - Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)

AMERICAN LITERATURE READINGS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning

By Timothy W. Galow

Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist)
Art of Self-Fashioning

Timothy W. Galow

WRITING CELEBRITY
Copyright Timothy W. Galow, 2011.

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Galow, Timothy W.

Writing celebrity : Stein, Fitzgerald, and the modern(ist) art of self-fashioning / Timothy W. Galow.

p. cm. (American literature readings in the twenty-first century)

ISBN 9780230112711 (hardback)

1. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Modernism (Literature)United States. 3. CelebritiesUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. FameSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th century. 5. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 18961940Criticism and interpretation. 6. Stein, Gertrude, 18741946Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.

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To the professor who made me want to do this work in the first place and the one whose tireless efforts made it possible

Looking back over the course of this project, I realize that it would take another book to thank all the people who have helped along the way. So I will be far too brief here, leaving out the names of literally hundreds of people who provided intellectual, emotional, and economic support as Writing Celebrity developed. Your help, I assure you, is not forgotten.

My first debt of gratitude is always to my mother and father, without whom none of this would have been possible, and I mean that in the broadest possible way. I also wish to single out Fran Ratzburg. I mention the unsolicited support that put food on my table during graduate school, but it was your generosity of spirit that mattered most. You are much missed.

Friends, colleagues, and students at the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina, and Wake Forest University have supplied invaluable assistance at all stages of this project. I have received significant institutional support from each school as well. Without the graduate fellowship from the University of Chicago, I would have missed out on many opportunities. At the University of North Carolina, a Frankel Dissertation Fellowship, a John R. Bittner Fellowship in Literature and Journalism, and a Smith Research Grant all provided economic support at crucial junctures. An Archie Research Fellowship at Wake Forest University enabled me to conduct research at several libraries around the country. The Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan provided research support for work on Esquire, which figures into the later chapters of this book. I want to express gratitude to Modernism/modernity, which published a piece of this book under the title Literary Modernism in the Age of Celebrity, 2010 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Volume 17, Issue 2, April 2010, pages 31329. Grateful acknowledgment is also given to the Journal of Modern Literature, in which an earlier version of appeared under the title, Gertrude Steins Everybodys Autobiography and the Art of Contradictions, Indiana University Press. This article first appeared in Volume 32, Issue 1, Fall 2008, pages 11128.