'Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and the Biographical Act' is an important study, which incorporates new scholarship on James and Stein in a theoretically sophisticated approach to literary experimentation with biography and autobiography in Anglo-American modernism. In his focus on gender issues in James and Stein, Caramello contributes to the revision of modernism in which Stein rightly plays a central role.'--John Carlos Rowe, University of California, Irvine