Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity 1
5. Chapter 1 . Oscar Wilde, Fashioning Fame 19
6. Chapter 2. James Joyce and Modernist Exceptionalism 55
7. Chapter 3. Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Celebrity 81
8. Chapter 4. Charlie Chaplin, Author of Modernist Celebrity 111
9. Chapter 5. Rhys, the Obscure: The Literature of Celebrity at the Margins 132
10. Epilogue. “Everybody who was anybody was there”: After Modernism, After Celebrity, John Dos Passos 160
11. Notes 175
12. Works Cited 187
13. Index 197