Charles Caramello - Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act
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Focusing on biographical portraiture, this text argues that Henry James and Gertrude Stein wrote biography as a cover for autobiography. It shows how they used their biographical portraits of precursors and contemporaries to portray themselves as exemplary modern artists.
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Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act
author
:
Caramello, Charles.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0807822671
print isbn13
:
9780807822678
ebook isbn13
:
9780807860700
language
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English
subject
Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946--Technique, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Technique, American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism, United States--Biography--History and criticism, Biography as a literary form, Narration (Rhetoric) , Self in lite
publication date
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1996
lcc
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PS2127.B54C37 1996eb
ddc
:
810.9/004
subject
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Stein, Gertrude,--1874-1946--Technique, James, Henry,--1843-1916--Technique, American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism, United States--Biography--History and criticism, Biography as a literary form, Narration (Rhetoric) , Self in lite
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CHARLES CARAMELLO
HENRY JAMES, GERTRUDE STEIN, AND THE BIOGRAPHICAL ACT
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS CHAPEL HILL AND LONDON
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1996
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The University of
Caramello, Charles.
North Carolina Press
Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the biographical act / by
All rights reserved
Charles Caramello.
Manufactured in
p. cm.
The United States
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index
.
Of America
ISBN 0-8078-2267-1 (cloth: alk. paper)
1. American prose literature20th centuryHistory and
The paper in this
criticism. 2. United StatesBiographyHistory and criticism.
1916Technique. 5. Biography as a literary form. 6. Narration
Permanence and
(Rhetoric). 7. Self in literature. 8. Autobiography. 9. Authorship.
Durability of the
I. Title.
Committee on
PS2127.B54C37 1996
Production
810.9'004dc20
95-34701
Guidelines for
CIP
Book Longevity
Of the Council on
Library Resources.
00 99 98 97 96
5 4 3 2 1
Page v
For Dagmar
Page vii
CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Abbreviations
xiii
1
Precursors
1
2
The Good American
Hawthorne
21
3
The Bostonian Type
William Wetmore Story and His Friends
57
4
In the Heroic Age of Cubism
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
119
5
Generals James and Stein
Four in America
169
Notes
201
Works Cited
255
Index
269
A section of illustrations appears following page 101.
103
Page ix
PREFACE
Commentators began remarking Henry James's and Gertrude Stein's similarity as early as 1910 a have continued to do so, on a regular but very casual basis, since then; few, however, have explored that similarity in any depth, and virtually no one has explored the issues that concern me or has brought together the series of texts that shape my study.1 In the singular exception, an anonymous writer of dustwrapper copy for a reprint of James's
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