Gertrude Stein in Europe: Reconfigurations Across Media, Disciplines, and Traditions

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Although often hailed as a quintessentially American writer, the modernist poet, novelist and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) spent most of her life in France. With chapters written by leading international scholars, Gertrude Stein in Europe is the first sustained exploration of the European artistic and intellectual networks in which Steins work was first developed and circulated. Along the way, the book investigates the European contexts of Steins writing, how her own work intersected with European thought, including phenomenology and the vitalist work of Henri Bergson, and ultimately how it was received by scholars and artists across the continent. Gertrude Stein in Europe opens up new perspectives on Stein as a writer and on the centrality of artistic and intellectual networks to European modernism.

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Sarah Posman is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. She is the editor of The Aesthetics of Matter (2013). Laura Luise Schultz is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.