Gertrude Stein (Critical Lives) (27 page)

Miller, Rosalind S.,
Gertrude Stein: Form and Intelligibility
(New York, 1949); contains Stein’s college themes.

Museum of Modern Art,
Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude
Stein and her Family
, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York, 1970)

Neuman, Shirley,
Gertrude Stein: Autobiography and the Problem of
Narration
(Victoria, BC, 1979)

––, and Ira B. Nadel, eds,
Gertrude Stein and the Making of Literature
(London, 1988)

North, Michael,
The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-century
Literature
(New York, 1994)

Perelman, Bob,
The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein and
Zukofsky
(Berkeley, CA, 1994)

Perloff, Marjorie,
The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage
(Princeton, nj, 1981)

Ryan, Betsy Alayne,
Gertrude Stein’s Theatre of the Absolute
(Ann Arbor, MI, 1984)

Schmitz, Neil,
Of Huck and Alice: Humorous Writing in American Literature
(Minneapolis, MN, 1983)

Simon, Linda,
The Biography of Alice B. Toklas
(New York, 1977)

Steiner, Wendy,
Exact Resemblance to Exact Resemblance: The Literary
Portraiture of Gertrude Stein
(New Haven, CT, 1978)

Stimpson, Catharine R., ‘Gertrude Stein and the Lesbian Lie’, in
American
Women’s Autobiography: Fea(s)ts of Memory
, ed. Margo Culley (Madison, WI, 1992), pp. 152–66

––, ‘Gertrude Stein and the Transposition of Gender’, in
The Poetics of
Gender
, ed. Nancy K. Miller (New York, 1986), pp. 1–18

––, ‘Humanism and Its Freaks’,
Boundary 2
, XIII (1984), pp. 301–19

––, ‘The Mind, the Body and Gertrude Stein’,
Critical Inquiry
, III/3 (1977), pp. 489–506

Toklas, Alice B.,
The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook
(New York, 1954)

––,
What Is Remembered
(New York, 1963)

Wagner-Martin, Linda,
‘Favored Strangers’: Gertrude Stein and Her Family
(New Brunswick, NJ, 1995)

Wald, Priscilla, ‘“A Losing Self-Sense”:
The Making of Americans
and the Anxiety of Identity’, in
Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and
Narrative Form
(Durham, NC, 1995), pp. 237–98

Walker, Jayne L.,
The Making of a Modernist: Gertrude Stein from Three Lives
to Tender Buttons
(Amherst, MA, 1984)

Watson, Steven,
Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the
Mainstreaming of American Modernism
(New York, 1998)

Weinstein, Norman,
Gertrude Stein and the Literature of the Modern
Consciousness
(New York, 1970)

Weiss, Lynn M.,
Gertrude Stein and Richard Wright: The Poetics and Politics
of Modernism
(Jackson, MS, 1998)

White, Ray Lewis,
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas: A Reference Guide
(Boston, MA, 1984)

Wineapple, Brenda,
Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein
(New York, 1996)

PENN
sound: Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stein.html

Link to recordings of Stein reading from
The Making of Americans
,
Matisse
,
A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson
,
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of
Picasso
,
The Fifteenth of November ... T S. Eliot
,
Portrait of Christian
Bérard
,
Madame Recamier. An Opera
, and
How She Bowed to Her
Brother
, plus a 1934 interview with Stein. Working notes by Ulla Dydo.

Burns, Edward, ed.,
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten
. 2 vols: 1913–1935 and 1935–1946 (New York, 1986)

––, ed.,
Staying On Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas
(New York, 1973)

––, and Ulla E. Dydo, eds,
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder
(New Haven, CT, 1996)

Everett, Patricia R., ed.,
A History of Having a Great Many Times Not
Continued to Be Friends: The Correspondence between Mabel Dodge and
Gertrude Stein, 1911–1934
(Albuquerque, NM, 1996)

Gallup, Donald, ed.,
The Flowers of Friendship: Letters Written to Gertrude
Stein
(New York, 1953)

Page, Tim, and Vanessa Weeks Page,
Selected Letters of Virgil Thomson
(New York, 1988)

Steward, Samuel M., ed.,
Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice
B. Toklas
(Boston, MA, 1977)

Turner, Kay, ed.,
Baby Precious Always Shines: Selected Love Notes between
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
(New York, 1999)

‘Gertrude Stein’ by Mina Loy is reprinted courtesy of Roger L. Conover, Mina Loy’s editor and literary executor. Extract from Gertrude Stein’s autobiographical notes for
Geography and Plays
, the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates, and by kind permission of the Estate of Gertrude Stein through its Literary Executor, Mr Stanford Gann, Jr, of Levin & Gann, PA.

I would like to thank the British Academy for financial support in the making of this book. Thanks also to Kasia Boddy, Ros Coward, Ann Fraser, Rowland Hughes, Cathryn Stone and Paul Vlitos, and thank you above all to Terry Daniel and Annette Daniel, and to José Enrique Martinez Yabar.

Photos courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: pp. 6, 10 (© DACS 2009), 15, 26, 33, 51, 67, 79, 96 (© Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2009), 101, 115, 123, 129 (© Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2009), 130 (© ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2009), 135, 157 (© Man Ray Trust/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2009), 160, 162 (by permission of The Carl Van Vechten Trust), 164, 165, 170, 175, 182, 185, 190, 191; photo The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946 (47.106): p. 65 (Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, © Succession Picasso/DACS 2009); photos The Baltimore Museum of Art: The Cone Collection, formed by Dr Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland: pp. 90 (BMA 1950.300), 128 (BMA 1950.315, © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2009); photo Smithsonian American Art Museum: p. 188 (gift of Mr and Mrs Jacob Kainen and museum purchase through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, © ARS, NY and DACS, London 2009).