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The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein
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Kirk Curnutt
Book Code: GR0475
ISBN: 0-313-30475-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30475-0
400 pages, figure
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/2000
List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Series Title: Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
Series Number: 36
Awards:
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2000
Reviews:
  • There has never been a Stein publication like this one....Curnett covers the full range of Stein's publishing career--from 1909 onward--reprinting the instructive in-your-face first reactions....This is the liveliest Stein item ever published--pure gold as a reference work, with its excellent index and helpful bibliography. It cannot be superseded. For all Stein collections, be they small or comprehensive.
    —Choice
Description: From her early classic Three Lives to her best-selling Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas to Brewsie and Willie, a loving tribute to the G.I.s who adored her, Gertrude Stein's work was among the most controversial of the modernist movement. Alternately praised and derided, emulated and ridiculed, Stein was as unique a celebrity as the mass media of the early 20th century ever produced. As her influence spread through the lost generation she nurtured, critics from Edmund Wilson to confidant Carl Van Vechten defended her experimentation against the slings and arrows of the literary establishment. At the same time, Stein found herself parodied and caricatured from the pages of the New York Sun to the New Yorker. Her reputation solidified only after her 1946 death from cancer prompted a series of reminiscences and reestimations from the Chicago Tribune to the Saturday Review. While previous collections of Stein criticism typically reprint commentary by her most ardent supporters, this study reconstructs her precarious position in the eyes of American newspaper and magazine columnists and is thus a guide to her critical reception. While including quintessential pieces on Stein by Carl Van Vechten, William Carlos Williams, and Katherine Anne Porter, this collection also includes previously obscure estimations from contemporaries such as H. L. Mencken, Mina Loy, and Conrad Aiken. The book borrows from a range of sources--from leading literary outlets such as the New Yorker to a number of regional newspapers. Some 75% of the material in the volume has never before been reprinted.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse
  • Introduction
  • Contemporary Reviews: The Making of a Reputation
  • Contemporary Commentary: Style, Influence, and the Debate Over Stein's Purpose
  • Veneration and Vituperation: The Making of a Celebrity
  • Remembrances, Memorials, and the Posthumous Reputation
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-020765
LCC Class: PS3537
Dewey Class: 823
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