Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms (Broadview Editions) - Softcover

Gertrude Stein (author)|Leonard Diepeveen (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1554811988 ISBN 13: 9781554811984

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2018

Synopsis

The only edition of Gertrude Stein’s modernist masterpiece that includes historical and cultural materials.|The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book’s effect on readers as “something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to.” Written in pencil in a small notebook and barely revised after its first composition, the text caused a sensation and was widely reviewed and discussed on its publication. This edition of Gertrude Stein’s transformative work immerses the text in its cultural context. The most opaque of modernist texts, Tender Buttons also had modernism’s most voluminous and varied response. This Broadview Edition uses the response to Tender Buttons as a way of understanding this spectacular moment in publishing history. Stein’s text is published alongside its parodies, defenses, publicity brochure, and selections from the hundreds of responses to it in American daily newspapers, which placed it in the context of Cubism, fashion shows, and celebrity culture.

About this title

About the Author

Leonard Diepeveen is George Munro Professor in Literature and Rhetoric in English at Dalhousie University.

From the Back Cover

The first publisher of Tender Buttons described the book's effect on readers as "something like terror, there are no known precedents to cling to." Written in pencil in a small notebook and barely revised after its first composition, the text caused a sensation and was widely reviewed and discussed on its publication. This edition of Gertrude Stein's transformative work immerses the text in its cultural context. The most opaque of modernist texts, Tender Buttons also had modernism's most voluminous and varied response.

This Broadview Edition uses the response to Tender Buttons as a way of understanding this spectacular moment in publishing history. Stein's text is published alongside its parodies, defenses, publicity brochure, and selections from the hundreds of responses to it in American daily newspapers, which placed it in the context of Cubism, fashion shows, and celebrity culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1554811988
• ISBN 13: 9781554811984
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 225