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Modernist star maps : celebrity, modernity, culture
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Modernist star maps : celebrity, modernity, culture

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-261) and index.

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Introduction / Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe
Celebrity modernisms. Adolescent Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde's proto-picture of modernist celebrity / Lois Cucullu
Orlando Pimpernel / Aaron Jaffe
Imposture in The great Gatsby
Allan Hepburn
There has been an inward change: in search of Eric Walrond / James C. Davis
Erskine Caldwell: modernist manqué / Loren Glass
Gertrude Stein's currency / Deborah Mix
Modernist celebrities and their vernaculars. Garbo's glamour / Judith Brown
In good company: sophistication and Vanity fair / Faye Hammill
Reaching for stars: Jean de Tinan's "Essay on Cléo de Mérode considered as popular symbol" / Michael D. Garval
Leni's Hitler/Hitler's Leni / Annalisa Zox-Weaver
Four Elvises / Edward P. Comentale
Stellar afterimages. Modernism is the age of Chaplin / Jonathan Goldman
On retrofitting: Samuel Beckett, tourist attraction / Stephen Watt
Defiling celebrity / Steven Connor
Afterword / Nancy Armstrong.

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