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Literary Modernism in the Age of Celebrity
- Modernism/modernity
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 17, Number 2, April 2010
- pp. 313-329
- 10.1353/mod.0.0191
- Article
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Using the careers of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein as examples, this article examines the creation of literary celebrity in the early twentieth century as a complex recursive process that involves authorial actions, the production of specific works, the promotion of texts and their authors, and audience reception. It ultimately contends that a more thorough exploration of this process can help scholars gain a better understanding of both the vocational sphere of authorship at the turn of the twentieth century and the texts produced at that time.