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FABULOUS POTENCY:
GETRUDE STEIN, TRUMAN CAPOTE, AUTHORIAL PERSONAE, AND
HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY FROM THE WILDE TRIALS TO STONEWALL
by
Jeffrey Michael Solomon
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Michael Solomon
Object Description
| Title | Fabulous potency: Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, authorial personae, and homosexual identity from the Wilde trials to Stonewall |
| Author | Solomon, Jeffrey Michael |
| Author email | jefsolo@gmail.com; jsolomon@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-09-29 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until Dec. 15, 2010 |
| Date published | 2010-12-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McCabe, Susan |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Boone, Joseph Gambrell, Alice Modleski, Tania Friedberg, Anne |
| Abstract | How did Stein and Capote become celebrities in homophobic times, when their work heavily featured gay content and a queer aesthetic? I argue that their authorial personae oscillated between a broad queerness that attracted a mass audience and a specific homosexuality that signaled to the sexually dissident. Using archival research, the dissertation traces the material specifics of these personae—the particulars of publishing, advertising, literary reception and cachet, and canon formation—to prove that analysis of Stein’s and Capote’s writing was deflected into discussion of their celebrity. I survey ninety-nine years of Stein criticism and fifty years of writing on Capote to demonstrate that critical analysis of these authors remains insufficient in terms of homosexuality. Reading for homosexuality reveals their work as extensions into modernism of the naturalist depiction of “inappropriate” subjects as social critique. |
| Keyword | Gertrude Stein; Truman Capote; gay authors; lesbian authors; author photographs; gay literature; lesbian literature; author celebrity; literary reception; literary cachet; authorial persona; authorial fame; canon formation; publishing; advertising; Three Lives; Other Voices, Other Rooms; gay celebrity; Life magazine; Time magazine; gay modernism; Armory Show; homosexuality in literature; homosexuality and modernism; homosexuality and naturalism |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1924 |
| Rights | Solomon, Jeffrey Michael |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Solomon-2503 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Solomon-2503.pdf |
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| Full text | FABULOUS POTENCY: GETRUDE STEIN, TRUMAN CAPOTE, AUTHORIAL PERSONAE, AND HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY FROM THE WILDE TRIALS TO STONEWALL by Jeffrey Michael Solomon A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Jeffrey Michael Solomon |
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