Introduction: modernism is the literature of celebrity: critical problem solving: modernism and popular culture; the field of modernism and the culture of celebrity; considering celebrity; why modernism is the literature of celebrity
Oscar Wilde, fashioning fame: copying oneself; judging by appearances in Dorian Gray; the tragic commodity; deep thoughts: embodying the subject in De profundis
James Joyce and modernist exceptionalism: styling the author; "peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day"; "famous son of a famous father": author, character, Holy Ghost; the dream of immateriality; E.T.: the extra-textual; the ghost of the author
Gertrude Stein, everybody's celebrity: elite by association; unstable values; the trademark of time; name of constant value; a democracy of one
Charlie Chaplin, author of modernist celebrity: happy endings; an author is born; sign of the times; the object of celebrity
Rhys, the obscure: the literature of celebrity at the margins
Epilogue. "Everybody who was anybody was there": after modernism, after celebrity, John Dos Passos.
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Modernism is the literature of celebrity by Jonathan Goldman. ISBN 9780292723399. Published by University of Texas Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
