Kiss Me Again: An Invitation to a Group of Noble Dames - Softcover

Kellner, Bruce

9781885586247: Kiss Me Again: An Invitation to a Group of Noble Dames

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1885586248 ISBN 13: 9781885586247

Publisher: Turtle Point Press, 2002

"The nobility of these noble dames is in their endless courage."—Donald Windham

"There is such generosity in these elegant and affectionate portraits reflected in the prism of Kellner's cherishing memory."—Mary Elsie Robertson

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About the Author:

Bruce Kellner, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Millersville University, is the author and editor of numerous books on theater, literature, and the arts. A respected Gertrude Stein authority, his previous publications also include "The Last Dandy: Ralph Barton, American Artist, Early Modern African American Writers", and "The Letters of Charles Demuth". Kellner is the foremost expert on Harlem Renaissance photographer Carl Van Vechten.

From Library Journal:

These homages, arranged chronologically, cover nine women who influenced Kellner, most of whom were also forgotten influences on the 20th-century artistic world. Kellner (emeritus, English, Millersville Univ.) describes his inspiration as Thomas Hardy's A Group of Noble Dames (1891), but Hardy's women were British aristocrats while Kellner's are "dames" as in "there is nothing like a dame." In addition to chapters on Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein's life companion, and Fritzi Scheff, a popular musical comedy star, are two short plays by Kellner about these women. Others covered are Fania Marinoff, an actress and wife to Carl Van Vechten, Marguerite Young, the prodigious author of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, and Nina Balaban, a Russian emigre painter. Kellner filters each life through his own personal or professional interactions with the "dame." Herein lies this book's flaw: Kellner is a minor figure in modern literary scholarship, and it is sad that someone like Alice B. Toklas should be reflected only through his view. One wishes for more objective information about these interesting women. Kellner's writing is good and the portraits are lively, if you accept these limitations. For modern readers with short attention spans, this is a good book, but one fervently hopes that in most cases the readers will be inspired to find more, and more objective, information. Shelley Cox, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
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