Everybody's Story: Gertrude Stein's Career as a Nexus Connecting Writers and Painters in Bohemian Paris

Author

Elizabeth F. Milam, University of Mississippi. Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

Date of Award

2017

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

English

First Advisor

Elizabeth Spencer

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

My thesis examines how the combination of Gertrude Stein's career, Paris, and the time period before, during, and after The Great War conflated to create the Lost Generation and affected the work of Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway. Five different sections focus on: the background of Stein and how her understanding of expression came into existence, Paris and the unique environment it provided for experimentation at the beginning of the twentieth century (and how that compared to the environment found in America), Modernism existing in Paris prior to World War One, the mass culture of militarization in World War One and the effect on the subjective perspective, and post-war Paris, Stein, and the Lost Generation.

Recommended Citation

Milam, Elizabeth F., "Everybody's Story: Gertrude Stein's Career as a Nexus Connecting Writers and Painters in Bohemian Paris" (2017). Honors Theses. 289.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/289

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