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Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range of transatlantic canonical and noncanonical figures, from the expected (Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald) to the surprising (Elvis and Hitler). Illuminating case studies are balanced by the volume's attentiveness to broader issues related to modernist aesthetics, as the contributors consider celebrity in relationship to identity, commodification, print culture, personality, visual cultures, and theatricality. As the first book to read modernism and celebrity in the context of the crises of individual agency occasioned by the emergence of mass-mediated culture, Modernist Star Maps argues that the relationship between modernism and the popular is unthinkable without celebrity. Moreover, celebrity's strange evolution during the twentieth century is unimaginable without the intercession of modernism's system of cultural value. This innovative collection opens new avenues for understanding celebrity not only for modernist scholars but for critical theorists and cultural studies scholars.
Contents
Contents: Introduction, Aaron Jaffe and Jonathan Goldman; Part 1 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. Part 2 Modernist Celebrities/Modernist Vernaculars: Garbo's glamour, Judith Brown; In good company: modernism, celebrity, and sophistication in Vanity Fair, Faye Hammill; Reaching for the 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. Part 3 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; Works cited; Index.
