Twenty-first-century readings of Tender is the night / edited by William Blazek and Laura Rattray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blazek, William.

Rattray, Laura.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Tender is the night.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Physical Description:

vi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

21st-century readings of Tender is the night

Place of Publication:

Liverpool [England] : Liverpool University Press, 2007.

Summary:

F. Scott Fitzgerald' s final completed novel, "Tender is the Night," published in 1934 but written during the previous decade, is a quintessentially decadent story of Americans abroad in the Jazz Age. In this accessible collection of essays, an impressive congregation of North American and European scholars presents eleven new readings of this widely studied book. The list of noteworthy contributors, including the general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the editors of the "F. Scott Fitzgerald Review," makes this volume required reading for Fitzgerald scholars and fans.

Contents:

1 'Can't We Put it in Writing?': Some Short Precursors to Tender Is the Night / Bonnie Shannon McMullen 16

2 Tender Is the Night, 'Jazzmania', and the Ellingson Matricide / James L. W. West III 34

3 Sanatorium Society: The 'Good' Place in Tender Is the Night / Linda De Roche 50

4 'Some Fault in the Plan': Fitzgerald's Critique of Psychiatry in Tender Is the Night / William Blazek 67

5 An 'Unblinding of Eyes': The Narrative Vision of Tender Is the Night / Laura Rattray 85

6 Si le soleil ne revenait pas: Swiss Clockwork Gone Mad in Tender Is the Night / Marie-Agnes Gay 103

7 'A Unity Less Conventional But Not Less Serviceable': A Narratological History of Tender Is the Night / Kirk Curnutt 121

8 American Riviera: Style and Expatriation in Tender Is the Night / Michael K. Glenday 143

9 'Out Upon the Mongolian Plain': Fitzgerald's Racial and Ethnic Cross-Identifying in Tender Is the Night / Chris Messenger 160

10 Gender Anxiety: The Unresolved Dialectic of Fitzgerald's Writing / Faith Pullin 177

11 Tender Is the Night and the Calculus of Modern War / James H. Meredith 192

12 Reading Fitzgerald Reading Keats / Philip McGowan 204.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1846310717

9781846310713

1846310725

9781846310720

OCLC:

77797378