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Celebrity Modernism
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 36, Number 4, Summer 2013
- pp. 157-160
- 10.2979/jmodelite.36.4.157
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Jonathan Goldman’s Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity shows how the trademark styles developed by a range of modernists shared a promotional logic with the emerging star system. The stylistic trademarks of major modernists produced the idea of the author, a celebrity figure distinct from the writer’s material existence yet dependent on audience recognition. As such, modernism is inextricable from the social production of celebrities.