Jonathan Goldman

literature prof, musician, other

The below is a sampling of writings I've published. Not everything! Scroll to the bottom for a link to a full list. There's much in the works, as well.

Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity

My monograph, available in paperback from U of Texas Press.

“Modernism is the Literature of Celebrity is a magical book and a path-breaking study. . . . A series of stunningly prescient and apposite chapters on Wilde, Joyce, Stein, Chaplin, Rhys, Dos Passos, and Hemingway, among others, follows through on the book’s bracing, provocative, and polemical premise for the centrality of celebrity in delineating what modernist literature was, and is.” — Jennifer Wicke, University of Virginia

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"Revisiting Dyckman Oval, A Lost Landmark From the Heyday of Black Baseball"
"Revisiting Dyckman Oval, A Lost Landmark From the Heyday of Black Baseball"

From Atlas Obscura

Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture
Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture

Ed. Jonathan Goldman and Aaron Jaffe. Ashgate Publications (2010).

In my mind, a companion to the monograph, a collection I co-edited with Aaron Jaffe (U of Louisville), featuring essays about the intersection of celebrity culture and early twentieth-century literature.

"Joyce & the Dems: Ulysses, Politics, and Cultural Capital"
"Joyce & the Dems: Ulysses, Politics, and Cultural Capital"

[image courtesy The Simpsons]

My essay about the phenomenon of politicians citing Ulysses as a favorite book. Published in Modernism/modernity.

Eva Tanguay's Racial and Gender Iconoclasticism and the Making of “Personality,” published in the Gotham Center Blog, April 2021

Eva Tanguay's Racial and Gender Iconoclasticism and the Making of “Personality,” published in the Gotham Center Blog, April 2021

James Joyce Quarterly
James Joyce Quarterly

[Image: "Joyce Giving out a Sentence" by DJ Schiff]

James Joyce Quarterly 50.4 (Fall 2013). [Published 2015]

I edited and wrote the introduction to this special issue of James Joyce Quarterly devoted to readings of Joyce alongside the law.

The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses
The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses

This might be (at this moment) my favorite publication, an essay about the post-1922 legacy of Joyce's novel Ulysses  in literary and popular culture, touching down on Jefferson Airplane, Tom Stoppard, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Costello and Flann O'Brien.  "Afterlife." The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses. Ed. Sean Latham. Cambridge UP (2014). 33-48. 

The Overalls Parade in NYC, 1920
The Overalls Parade in NYC, 1920

From the Gotham Center website

"When Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair" in Public Domain Review, Feb, 2020,
"When Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair" in Public Domain Review, Feb, 2020,
"Babe Ruth's New York @100" in Public Books
"Babe Ruth's New York @100" in Public Books
My essay, “ ‘I’m Gonna Be Somebody’” 1930s Gangsters and Modernist Celebrity” published in Popular Modernism and Its Legacies , edited by Scott Ortolano (Bloomsbury 2017)

My essay, “ ‘I’m Gonna Be Somebody’” 1930s Gangsters and Modernist Celebrity” published in Popular Modernism and Its Legacies, edited by Scott Ortolano (Bloomsbury 2017)

George Bernard Shaw in Context
George Bernard Shaw in Context

I published a fun little piece titled "Celebrity" in Bernard Shaw in Context. Ed. Brad Kent. Cambridge UP (2015). 

"How New Yorkers Celebrated New Year's Eve 100 Years Ago," in Gothamist
"How New Yorkers Celebrated New Year's Eve 100 Years Ago," in Gothamist
"Extraordinary People"
"Extraordinary People"

"Extraordinary People: The Superhero Genre and Celebrity Culture."  The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature. Ed. Dan Hassler-Forrest and Joyce Goggin. McFarland Press (2010). 142-153.

WAKE UUUUP!
WAKE UUUUP!

My most urgent and, interestingly, most-read (I think) piece of writing, a commentary on Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing and the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. 

"Wake Uuuup!: Do the Right Thing After Ferguson." Open Letters Monthly. October 1, 2014. 

Winter Is Coming: How HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Going off Book and Breaking All the Rules
Winter Is Coming: How HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Going off Book and Breaking All the Rules

A not-exactly-scholarly essay I published when the GoTnet was abuzz with spoiler concerns. The editors at The Millions were great but I mislike their title. The Millions April 9, 2015. 

Double Exposure Charlie Chaplin as Author and Celebrity
Double Exposure Charlie Chaplin as Author and Celebrity

M/C Journal 7.5 (2004).