Date : 2011
Editeur / Publisher : New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-0-230-11271-1
ISBN : 0-230-11271-4
Fitzgerald -- Francis Scott -- 1896-1940 -- Critique et interprétation
Stein -- Gertrude -- 1874-1946 -- Critique et interprétation
Célébrités -- Société -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Classification Dewey : 810.9/112
Résumé / Abstract : "Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on "literary" writing in the decades before World War II. The second two sections of the book demonstrate the relevance of celebrity for literary scholarship by re-evaluating the careers of two major American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein"--