Description
This book explores the politics of the right to write in Gertrude Stein's practice and its reception. It examines how conceptions of authorship intersected discourses of democracy and rights in the period 1909-1933. The persistent debates across a broad range of publication contexts over Gertrude Stein's right to participate in modernist authorship provide an instructive example of the way literary culture reflected contemporary political discussion. This study explores how representations of Stein that figured her either as barely human or as the ultimate democratic subject reproduced debates about who should participate in public life, refracted an emerging discourse of human rights, and echoed fears about the consequences of mass democracy as political franchise was extended.
Author: Isabelle Parkinson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 01/10/2023
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781474484329
ISBN10: 1474484328
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Politics
About the Author
Isabelle Parkinson is a Teaching Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published on Gertrude Stein's authorial identity and on the role of the anthology in constructing an avant-garde canon. Her work has appeared in, among others, the Journal of Modern Literature, Postmodern Cultures, and Bloomsbury's Historicising Modernism series.