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Cover M Gertrude Stein o d e r and the Politics n A m of Participation e r i c a Democracy, Rights and n L Modernist Authorship, 1909 –1933 i t e r a Isabelle Parkinson t u r e a n d t h e N e w T w e n t i e t h C e n t u r y Half Title Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation Series Page Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century Series Editors: Martin Halliwell and Mark Whalan Published Titles Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature Sarah Daw F. 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Collins Black Childhood in Modern African American Fiction Nicole King The Artifice of Affect: American Realist Literature and the Critique of Emotional Truth Nicholas Manning Visit our website at www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/ MALTNTC Title Page Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation Democracy, Rights and Modernist Authorship, 1909–1933 ISABELLE PARKINSON Copyright Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © Isabelle Parkinson 2023 Cover image: Portrait of Gertrude Stein, with American flag as backdrop, January 4, 1935. Photographed by Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Cover design: www.hayesdesign.co.uk Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 10/13 ITC Giovanni Std Book by Cheshire Typesetting Ltd, Cuddington, Cheshire and printed and bound in Great Britain A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 4744 8432 9 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 4744 8434 3 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 4744 8435 0 (epub) The right of Isabelle Parkinson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). Contents CONTENTS Acknowledgements vi Introduction: Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and Democracy 1 1. The Politics of Authorship in Three Lives 36 2. Authorship and Community in Stein’s Pre-war Portraits and Tender Buttons 84 3. Modernism’s Abject: Geography and Plays and Stein’s Contested Authorship 140 4. Useful Knowledge and the Mind of Mass Democracy 189 Coda: Stein’s Democratic Authorship in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 227 Bibliography 238 Index 250 Acknowledgements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My first and most profound thanks are to Suzanne Hobson, whose generous support and guidance in the years during and after my PhD at Queen Mary, University of London have extended far beyond any possible obligation. I am also grateful to my adviser Morag Shiach for calling me to account until I learned to account for myself. Thanks are also due to Alex Goody and Robert Hampson, who examined my PhD thesis, a process that helped me determine the direction of this new project. The majority of this book was written whilst I was teaching in the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture at Queen Mary, and I have an enormous debt of grat- itude to Kiera Vaclavik and Angus Nicholls for their mentorship and encouragement, and for the extraordinary opportunities they gave me to develop as an academic and teacher. Thanks also to all those modernist scholars I always look forward to meeting at conferences and whose lovely work and thrilling conversation has stimulated and developed my thinking, including Hannah Roche, Faye Hammill, Iain Bailey, Alix Beeston, Clara Jones, Sophie Oliver, Natasha Periyan and Jeff Wallace. Particular thanks are due to Janet Lyon, inspirational modernist scholar and co-editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, whose forthright feedback proved to be a formative intervention at an important moment in the development of this study. I am very grateful for EUP’s initial readers for continuing this work, and for the ongoing support of Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century series editors, Martin Halliwell and Mark Whalan. Acknowledgements / vii Thanks also to Susannah Butler from EUP for her patient and gentle reminders. I would like to acknowledge with deepest gratitude the bookish friends Claudia Jessop, Andrew Gray, Kate Bomford, Nick Dodd, Anneke Pettican, John Dunn and Emma Simpson who have lis- tened and engaged with kindly attention to the long story of this text, and especially Asiya Bulatova, modernist, traveller and dearest padrooga. Finally, thanks to my best and most present reader, Marc Lancaster, for his thereness, and to Evie and Vic Lancaster for being Them. Portions of Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation have been published elsewhere. A version of Chapter 4 appeared as ‘Democrat or “imbecile”? Gertrude Stein’s Useful Knowledge and Discourses of Intellectual Disability in the To-day and To-morrow Pamphlet Series’ in Journal of Modern Literature, 43:3 (2020), and sections from Chapter 4 and from the Introduction appear in Useful Knowledge beyond the Beinecke: Gertrude Stein reading discourses of democracy and rights in Life magazine and the Literary Digest’ in Historicizing Modernists: Approaches to ‘Archivalism’, edited by Matthew Feldman (Bloomsbury Academic: 2021). Thanks to JML and Bloomsbury for permission to republish.
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