Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation: Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909-1933 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474484336)

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
ISBN-10: 1474484336
ISBN-13: 9781474484336
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2024
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d