Primary Stein: returning to the writing of Gertrude Stein

Following Gertrude Stein's efforts throughout her life to shift the focus from her personality to her writing, the essays in Primary Stein return the lens to her primary texts, including novels, plays, lectures, poetry, and more. Much textual scholarship remains to be done on Stein's work, whether the well-known, the little-known, or yet unpublished. Contributors to this collection draw on interdisciplinary backdrops to enrich and complicate how we might read, understand, and teach Stein's writing.