Authorial personality in the American field of cultural production -- Celebrity theory and authorial autobiography -- Literary property and the right to privacy -- Modernism, mass culture, masculinity -- Modern consciousness and public subjectivity -- Pronouns, patronyms, publicity -- (Re)collecting the past -- Third person masculine -- Trademark Twain -- The republic of letters -- Betwain two deaths -- Incorporating the author -- Legitimating London -- Plagiarism, primitivism, publicity -- Literary value and class consciousness -- Literature and legitimacy -- Gertrude Stein's money -- The gender of genius -- Funny money -- The death of genius -- Being ernest -- The author vs. the audience (misogyny) -- The author vs. himself (homophobia) -- The author vs. the biographer (death) -- The author reborn? (androgyny) -- The Norman Conquest -- Declaration : first among equals -- Engagement : the third man -- Defeat: the second sex -- Executing the author
Summary
An investigation of how popular modernist writers handled their fame
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-232) and index
