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Recent scholarly trends and controversies in Gertrude Stein scholarship have focused on her politics and her friendships as well as on Stein the collector, the celebrity, the visual icon. Clearly, these recent examinations not only deepen our understanding of Stein but also attest to her staying power. Yet Stein's writing itself too often remains secondary. The central premise of Primary Stein is that an extraordinary amount of textual scholarship remains to be done on Stein's work, whether the well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. The essays in Primary Stein draw on recent interdisciplinary examinations, using cultural and historical contexts to enrich and complicate how we might read, understand, and teach Stein's writing. Following Stein's own efforts throughout her lifetime to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, these innovative essays turn the lens back to a wide range of her texts, including novels, plays, lectures and poetry. Each essay takes Stein's primary works as its core interpretive focus, returning scholarly conversations to the challenges and pleasures of working with Stein's texts.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. A Primer for Primary Stein
Sharon J. Kirsch and Janet Boyd
Chapter 1. Make It Plain: Stein and Toklas Publish the Plain Edition
Gabrielle Dean
Chapter 2. Woolfenstein, the Sequel
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Chapter 3. "Come too": 1920s Erotic Rights Discourse and Gertrude Stein's "Patriarchal Poetry"
Jody Cardinal
Chapter 4. Long Dull Poems: Stein's Stanzas in Meditation and Wordsworth's The Prelude
Rebecca Ariel Porte
Chapter 5. tender buttons, notwithstanding
Neil Schmitz
Chapter 6. How to Read How to Write: Bothering with Gertrude Stein
Sharon J. Kirsch
Chapter 7. Framing Devices: Reading Background in the Sequence of Gertrude Stein's Composition
Linda Voris
Chapter 8. Radio Free Stein: Rendering Queen and Country
Adam Frank
Chapter 9. "A Spare American Emotion"
E. L. McCallum
Chapter 10. "More light!—Electric Light." Stein in Dialogue with the Romantic Paradigm in Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights
Sarah Posman
Chapter 11. Gertrude Stein's Geographical History of Literature
Janet Boyd
Chapter 12. Modernist and Future Ex-Modernist: Postwar Stein
Kristin Bergen
Chapter 13. History, Narrative, and "Daily Living" in Wars I Have Seen
Phoebe Stein
Chapter 14. Mrs. Reynolds: Stein's Anti-Nazi Novel
Steven Gould Axelrod
Appendix A: A Note on the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers in the Twenty-First Century
Nancy Kuhl
Appendix B: "The Gertrude Stein Collection" reprinted from The Yale Gazette 22.2 (October 1947)
Donald Gallup
Index
Notes on contributors
