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Sports, narrative, and nation in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Jarom Lyle McDonald.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDonald, Jarom Lyle, 1976-
- Series:
- Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
- Studies in major literary authors
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Criticism and interpretation.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Political and social views.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
- Sports in literature.
- Sports spectators.
- Social status in literature.
- Social classes in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Political and social views.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 159 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, [2007]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 "We Are a Very Special Country": The Narrativization of Sport and the Fiction of a Classless Nation 9
- Chapter 2 Gridiron Paradise: Princetonian Football, American Class 39
- Chapter 3 "Idol of the Whole Body of Young Men": Football, Heroes, and the Performance of Social Status 75
- Chapter 4 "Perfunctory Patriotism": Tom Buchanan, Meyer Wolfshiem, and "America's Game" 111
- Coda: Of Habitus and Homecoming 141.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-156) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415981336
- 9780415981330
- OCLC:
- 77004225
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