Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity

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[ vii Contents AckNowledgmeNts ix INtroductioN: Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity 1 Critical Problem Solving: Modernism and Popular Culture 2 The Field of Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity 5 Considering Celebrity 8 Why Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity 10 ChaPter 1. Oscar Wilde, Fashioning Fame 19 Copying Oneself 21 Judging by Appearances in Dorian Gray 33 The Tragic Commodity 39 Deep Thoughts: Embodying the Subject in De Profundis 44 ChaPter 2. James Joyce and Modernist Exceptionalism 55 Styling the Author 57 “Peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day” 64 “Famous Son of a Famous Father”: Author, Character, Holy Ghost 69 The Dream of Immateriality 74 E.T.: The Extra-Textual 75 The Ghost of the Author 79 ChaPter 3. Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Celebrity 81 Elite by Association 86 Unstable Values 90 The Trademark of Time 98 Name of Constant Value 102 A Democracy of One 108 ChaPter 4. Charlie Chaplin, Author of Modernist Celebrity 111 Happy Endings 112 An Author Is Born 116 viii ] Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity Sign of the Times 123 The Object of Celebrity 128 ChaPter 5. Rhys, the Obscure: The Literature of Celebrity at the Margins 132 That Obscure Abject of Desire 134 Bildung in the Dark 141 The Hidden Rhys 145 Wide Sargasso City 148 Posthuman Beings 152 Celebrity on the Margins 157 Sighting Rhys 159 EPilogue. “Everybody who was anybody was there”: After Modernism, After Celebrity, John Dos Passos 160 The Camera, I 161 The In Crowd 164 Stein and They, Hemingway 167 U.S.A. and Hem 169 Notes 175 Works Cited 187 INdex 197 ...