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Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act (Paperback, New edition)
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Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act (Paperback, New edition)
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Focusing on biographical portraiture, Charles Caramello argues that
Henry James and Gertrude Stein performed biographical acts in two
senses of the phrase: they wrote biography, but as a cover for
autobiography. Constructing literary genealogies while creating
original literary forms, they used their biographical portraits of
precursors and contemporaries to portray themselves as exemplary
modern artists. Caramello advances this argument through close
readings of four works that explore themes of artistry and
influence and that experiment with forms of biographical
portraiture: James's early biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his
much later group biography, William Wetmore Story and His Friends,
and Stein's celebrated Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and her
largely forgotten Four in America, which comprises biographies of
Ulysses S. Grant, Wilbur Wright, Henry James, and George
Washington. The first comparative study of these two great
expatriate writers, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the
Biographical Act addresses questions of art, influence, and
literary culture by analyzing important biographical portraits that
themselves address the same questions. A UNC Press Enduring Edition
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