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    The Making of Americans

    The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Familys Progress is a modernist novel by Gertrude Stein.
    The novel traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the ctional Hersland and Dehning families. Stein also includes frequent
    metactional meditations on the process of writing the
    text that periodically overtake the main narrative.

    4 Autobiographical elements

    5 References

    The book contains many autobiographical elements.


    Some scholars argue that David Hersland is a ctional
    representation of Gertrude Steins brother Leo.[7] Gossols, the Western city that the Hersland family calls home,
    is said to be a stand-in for the Steins hometown of
    Oakland, California.[8]

    Publication history

    [1] Moore, George B. Gertrude Steins The Making of Americans: Repetition and the Emergence of Modernism. Washington, DC: Peter Lang, 1998.

    Stein wrote the bulk of the novel between 1903 and 1911,
    and evidence from her manuscripts suggests three major
    periods of revision during that time.[1] The manuscript
    remained mostly hidden from public view until 1924
    when, at the urging of Ernest Hemingway, Ford Madox
    Ford agreed to publish excerpts in the transatlantic review.[2] In 1925, the Paris-based Contact Press published
    a limited run of the novel consisting of 500 copies. A
    much-abridged edition was published by Harcourt Brace
    in 1934, but the full version remained out of print until
    Something Else Press republished it in 1966. In 1995, a
    new, denitive edition was published by Dalkey Archive
    Press with a foreword by William Gass.[3]

    [2] Rainey, Lawrence. Book Review of The Making of Americans. Modernism/Modernity 4.2 (1997): 222-224.
    [3] Stein, Gertrude. The Making of Americans. Normal, IL:
    Dalkey Archive Press, 1995.
    [4] Stein, The Making of Americans, 18.
    [5] Gertrude Stein, Narration Ed. Thornton Wilder (New
    York: Greenwood Press, 1969), 24.
    [6] Conrad Aiken, We Ask for Bread, Review of The Making of Americans, by Gertrude Stein, in The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein, Ed. Kirk Curnutt (Westport,
    Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000), 38-39. Originally published in The New Republic, 4 April 1934.

    Characters

    [7] Moore, 21.

    Stein writes, the important matter in the history of the


    Dehning family is the marrying of Julia[4] to Alfred Hersland, and Stein describes the members of each of their
    families - as well as several peripheral characters with
    whom the families are acquainted - in insistent, painstaking detail. The book lacks chapter divisions, but it is
    roughly divided into sections corresponding to the lives of
    one generation of Herslands: Alfred, his wife Julia (ne
    Dehning), his sister Martha, and his brother David.

    [8] Janice L. Doane, Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels


    of Gertrude Stein, (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
    1986), 95.

    Style

    Stein employs a limited vocabulary and relies heavily


    on the technique of repetition. Her unusual use of the
    present participle is one of the most commonly noted features of the text.[5][6]
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