F. Scott Fitzgerald / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Criticism and interpretation.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 261 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Chelsea House Publishers, [2006]

Summary:

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is best remembered as a novelist of the Jazz Age, the delirious period of excesses and moral bankruptcy following World War I that Fitzgerald scrutinized most famously in The Great Gatsby. A member of what Gertrude Stein dubbed "The Lost Generation," Fitzgerald took Americans and American narratives as his major subject, completing four novels and numerous short stories in his brief career. His own life story closely informed his fiction and continues to propel much of the critical reception of his work in the six decades since his death. Talented, dashing and, in the end, tragic, he has always been more than just a writer to admirers and critics alike. The youthful icon of a lifestyle and an age now departed, Fitzgerald is, as Claudia Roth Pierpont put it, "our link between Keats and James Dean."

Contents:

F. Scott Fitzgerald / Paul Rosenfeld

The moral of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Glenway Wescott

F. Scott Fitzgerald : the authority of failure / William Troy

Theme and texture in The great Gatsby / W.J. Harvey

The life of Gatsby / John W. Aldridge

Fitzgerald's "Babylon revisited" / Seymour L. Gross

The beautiful and damned : Fitzgerald's test of youth / Leonard A. Podis

The crisis of Fitzgerald's Crack-up / Scott Donaldson

Who killed Dick Diver? : the sexual politics of Tender is the night / Judith Fetterley

The last tycoon : Fitzgerald as projectionist / Robert Giddings

F. Scott Fitzgerald's evolving American dream : the "pursuit of happiness" in Gatsby, Tender is the night, and The last tycoon / John F. Callahan

Princeton as modernist's hermeneutics : rereading This side of paradise / Nancy P. Van Arsdale

White skin, white mask : passing, posing, and performing in The great Gatsby / Meredith Goldsmith

History and masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This side of paradise / Pearl James.

Notes:

Updated ed. of same title published 1985, in series: Modern critical views.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.

ISBN:

0791085708

OCLC:

63122840

Publisher Number:

9780791085707