Full Description
The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book's effect on readers as "something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to." Written in pencil in a small notebook and barely revised after its first composition, the text caused a sensation and was widely reviewed and discussed on its publication. This edition of Gertrude Stein's transformative work immerses the text in its cultural context. The most opaque of modernist texts, Tender Buttons also had modernism's most voluminous and varied response.
This Broadview Edition uses the response to Tender Buttons as a way of understanding this spectacular moment in publishing history. Stein's text is published alongside its parodies, defenses, publicity brochure, and selections from the hundreds of responses to it in American daily newspapers, which placed it in the context of Cubism, fashion shows, and celebrity culture.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gertrude Stein: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Tender Buttons
Appendix A: Manuscript Pages of "A Seltzer Bottle," Tender Buttons
Appendix B: Claire Marie Publicity Brochure for Tender Buttons
Appendix C: Gertrude Stein on Tender Buttons
On Her Reception
On Words
On Interpretation
Appendix D: Reviews and Contemporary Comment
General
a. "Literary Notes," St. Joseph News-Press (8 August 1914)
b. Mabel Dodge, "Speculations, or Post-Impressionism in Prose," Arts and Decoration (March 1913)
c. Alfred Kreymborg, "Gertrude Stein—Hoax and Hoaxtress," New York Morning Telegraph (7 March 1915)
d. Carl Van Vechten, "How to Read Gertrude Stein," Trend (1914)
e. From Mina Loy, "Gertrude Stein," Transatlantic Review (1924)
f. "Flat Prose," Atlantic Monthly (September 1914)
g. "Gertrude Stein," New York City Call (7 June 1914)
h. "Time to Show a Message," Omaha World Herald (7 June 1914)
Cubism and Futurism
a. From Mary Mills Lyall, The Cubies' ABC (1913)
b. "Cubist Literature," San Antonio Light (14 June 1914)
c. "What Is Lunch?," Chicago Tribune (12 June 1914)
d. "Gertrude Stein as Literary Cubist," Philadelphia North American (13 June 1914)
e. G.V.S., "Tender Buttons," Pittsburgh Sun (17 July 1914)
f. H.L. Mencken, "A Cubist Treatise," Baltimore Sun (6 June 1914)
Celebrity and Mass Culture
a. Oscar Odd McIntyre, "Day by Day in New York," Bridgeport Post (13 July 1914)
b. Marguerite Mooers Marshall, "No Straight Lines," Toledo Blade (9 July 1914)
c. "Futurist Man's Dress to Be a One-Piece Suit With One Button and Twinkling in Colors," Toledo Blade (9 July 1914)
d. "Gertrude Stein of the Stage," Pittsfield Eagle (4 November 1914)
Parodies
a. From Franklin P. Adams, "The Conning Tower," Cleveland Leader (23 June 1914)
b. "The Futurist on the Trade," New York City Daily Trade Record (18 June 1914)
c. "Our Own Polo Guide: The Game Explained a la Gertrude Stein," New York Evening Sun (13 June 1914)
d. Don Marquis, "Gertrude Stein on the War," New York Evening Sun (2 October 1914)
e. A.S.K. [Alexander S. Kaun], "The Same Book from Another Standpoint," Little Review (July 1914)
Works Cited and Select Bibliography
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