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Author: Gertrude Stein
ISBN: 9780231063098

by Gertrude Stein; Carl Van Vechten; Edward Burns (Editor)

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This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first meeting in 1913, Stein and Van Vechten formed a unique and powerful relationship, and Van Vechten worked vigorously to publish and promote Stein's work. Existing biographies of Stein--including her own autobiographical writings--omit a great deal about her experiences and thought. They lack the ordinary detail of what Stein called "daily everyday living" the immediate concerns, objects, people, and places that were the grist for her writing. These letters not only vividly represent those details but also showcase Stein and Van Vechten's private selves as writers. Edward Burns's extensive annotations include detailed cross-referencing of source materials.

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Title The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
Author Gertrude Stein; Carl Van Vechten; Edward Burns (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Pages 920
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Columbia University Press
Publication date 2013-07-30
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9780231063098 / 0231063091
Weight 2.69 lbs (1.22 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 1.9 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 4.83 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Women's Interest
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress subjects Stein, Gertrude, Authors, American - 20th century
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013933742
Dewey Decimal Code 818.520

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Choice, 02/01/2014, Page 0

About the author

Edward Burns is professor of English at William Paterson University and editor of A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The "Finnegans Wake" Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen; A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen; and The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder.