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Three Lives

by: Stein, Gertrude

Three Lives

by: Stein, Gertrude

ISBN 13:
9780452010062
ISBN 10:
0452010063
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/10/1985
Publisher: Plume
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One of Stein's most enduring and beloved works, three stories about women.

About the Series	p. iii
About This Volume	p. vi
Illustrations	p. xii
Three Lives: The Complete Text	p. 1
Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background	p. 3
Chronology of Stein's Life and Times	p. 27
A Note on the Text	p. 35
Three Lives [Grafton Press edition, 1909, written 1906]	p. 36
Three Lives: Cultural contexts	p. 217
The Woman Question: Rights, the Vote, Education, Health	p. 219
from Address to the New York State Legislature (1860)	p. 223
"The Working-Girls of New York," from Folly As It Flies	p. 226
from The Higher Education of Women	p. 229
One Farmer's Wife	p. 233
from Women and Economics	p. 236
from Letter to Henri Pierre Roche (June 12, 1912)	p. 246
from Fat and Blood and How to Make Them	p. 249
from Medicine in the Nineteenth Century	p. 251
from Obstetrics	p. 257
Questions of Otherness: Sexuality ("Inversion"), Race, Gender	p. 260
from The Ballad of Reading Gaol	p. 263
from The Sexual Aberrations	p. 271
from Forbidden Fires	p. 281
from The Mechanism of Detumescence	p. 285
from The Modern Jew Who Has Given Up the Faith of His Fathers Can Reasonably and Consistently Believe in Isolation	p. 291
"Judaism" and "Woman and Her Significance," from Sex and Character	p. 293
from The Case Stated	p. 302
Discussions of Mind and Philosophy	p. 308
"The Varieties of Attention" and "The Stream of Thought" from The Principles of Psychology	p. 310
"Form in Words," from Persons and Places	p. 319
from Brain and Thought: A Philosophical Illusion	p. 321
"The Aim of Philosophy," from Modes of Thought	p. 325
Aesthetic Questions: Realism and the Modern	p. 329
Letter to Emile Zola (1874)	p. 332
from The Art of the Novel	p. 335
from Crumbling Idols, Twelve Essays on Art and Literature	p. 338
from An Experiment in Misery	p. 341
"Simplicity in Art," from The Responsibility of the Novelist and Other Literary Essays	p. 347
from The Souls of Black Folk	p. 352
Modernism and the Avant-Garde	p. 360
Letter to Mabel Weeks about European Painting	p. 363
Letter to His Son Paul (September 26, 1906)	p. 369
The Nation, Anonymous Review of Stein's Three Lives (January 20, 1910)	p. 371
from Speculations, or Post-Impressionism in Prose	p. 372
from How to Read Gertrude Stein	p. 376
Selected Bibliography	p. 380
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