Description of Acquaintance

Logan Esdale teaches in the Department of English at Chapman University and at California State University–Long Beach. He is the coeditor of Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein and the editor of a workshop edition of Stein's 1941 novel Ida. Jane Malcolm is an associate professor of English at the Université de Montréal. She is the coeditor of an edition of Laura Riding's 1928 book of criticism Contemporaries and Snobs.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude SteinAppendixThe New Barbarism, and Gertrude SteinLaura RidingAn Acquaintance with DescriptionGertrude SteinNotesWorks CitedIndex

"The Riding-Stein correspondence will be compelling reading for all who are interested in modernism." - Bob Perelman, author of The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History"This three-year correspondence sheds a brilliant new light on what is arguably one of the most intensely productive periods in both Riding's and Stein's careers." - Jennifer Ashton, editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945