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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

Three Lives and Q.E.D.

Overview

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on the Texts
  • The Text of Three Lives
  • The Text of Q.E.D.
  • Contexts
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • Linda Wagner-Martin • [Writing the Early Novels]
  • INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUNDS
  • William James • The Sense of Time
  • Otto Weininger • Emancipated Women
  • Criticism
  • Contemporary Reception: Six anonymous newspaper reviews
  • William Carlos Williams • The Work of Gertrude Stein
  • Carl Van Vechten • A Stein Song
  • Donald Sutherland • [Three Lives]
  • Richard Bridgman • [Q.E.D. and "Melanctha"]
  • Carl Wood • Continuity of Romantic Irony: Stein’s Homage to Laforgue in Three Lives
  • Catharine R. Simpson • [Lesbianism in Q.E.D. and "Melanctha"]
  • Marianne DeKoven • [Anti-patriarchal Writing and Three Lives]
  • Jayne L. Walker • Three Lives: The Realism of the Composition
  • Sonia Sandivar-Hull • [Racism in "Melanctha"]
  • Lisa Ruddick • [Gender and Consciousness in "Melanctha"]
  • Marianne DeKoven • [Race, Sexuality, and form in "Melanctha"]
  • Corinne E. Blackmer • [African Masks and Passing in Stein and Larsen]
  • Michael North • [Stein, Picasso, and African Masks]
  • Priscilla Wald • [Immigration and "The Anxiety of Identity"]
  • Jaime Hovey • Sapphic Primitivism in Gertrude Stein’s Q.E.D.
  • Carla L. Peterson • ["Melanctha" and African-American Music]
  • M. Lynn Weiss • [Stein and Richard Wright]
  • Barbara Will • [Race and Jewishness]
  • Daylanne K. English • [Eugenics in "Melanctha"]
  • Gertrude Stein: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography