Vital Stein

Stein’s modernist fascination with life connects her writing to late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers Offers an alternative vitalist framework for our understanding of modernism and the avant-gardeOutlines a genealogy of the contemporary fascination with vitalismContains detailed readings of Stein’s texts from the early 1900s to the 1930s that make visible the vitalist system that underpins Stein’s project This book focuses on Gertrude Stein, who wanted to capture ‘this thing life’ in