Modernist star maps : celebrity, modernity, culture /: celebrity, modernity, culture. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Aaron Jaffe and Jonathan Goldman.
• Other Names: Jaffe, Aaron; Goldman, Jonathan (Jonathan E.)
• Contents: Introduction / Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe -- 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 Mix -- Modernist celebrities and their vernaculars. Garbo's glamour / Judith Brown -- In good company: 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (280 pages)
• Subjects: 700.4112; 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
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351916875; 1351916874
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