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The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
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Description for The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
Paperback. Editor(s): Burns, Edward. Num Pages: 920 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 159 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1214.
This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first meeting in 1913, Stein and Van Vechten formed a unique and powerful relationship, and Van Vechten worked vigorously to publish and promote Stein's work. Existing biographies of Stein-including her own autobiographical writings-omit a great deal about her experiences and thought. They lack the ordinary detail of what Stein called "daily everyday living": the immediate concerns, objects, ... Read more
This monumental collection of correspondence between Gertrude Stein and critic, novelist, and photographer Carl Van Vechten provides crucial insight into Stein's life, art, and artistic milieu as well as Van Vechten's support of major cultural projects, such as the Harlem Renaissance. From their first meeting in 1913, Stein and Van Vechten formed a unique and powerful relationship, and Van Vechten worked vigorously to publish and promote Stein's work. Existing biographies of Stein-including her own autobiographical writings-omit a great deal about her experiences and thought. They lack the ordinary detail of what Stein called "daily everyday living": the immediate concerns, objects, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
920
Condition
New
Number of Pages
920
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231063098
SKU
V9780231063098
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About Gertrude Stein
Edward Burns is professor of English at William Paterson University and editor of A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The "Finnegans Wake" Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen; A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen; and The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder.
Reviews for The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946
[Burns] has arranged and annotated these [letters] with extraordinary skill and diligence. Times Literary Supplement The Stein-Van Vechten letters reveal, afresh and anew, the world of twentieth-century genius and bohemia. Edward Burns has edited this human archive with the deeply-informed precision of a leading Stein scholar.
Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University Burns's editing is a monument of patient ... Read more
Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University Burns's editing is a monument of patient ... Read more