Tender is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgerald's sentimental identities / Chris Messenger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messenger, Christian K., 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sentimentalism in literature.

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest impulses as a prose writer. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, refractions, and influences Fitzgerald explores in Tender Is the Night define key components in his affective life, which evolved into a powerful aesthetic that informed his vocation as a modernist writer. In "Tender Is the Night" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities, Messenger traces the r

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Identitities; 1. "Rare," "Whole-Souled,""Vicious": Fitzgerald's Ambivalence toward Sentiment in Book One of Tender Is the Night; 2. Replacing the Dead Sisters: Fitzgerald's Narrative Incorporations of Sentimental Mourning; 3. "So Easy To Be Loved-So Hard To Love": Sentiment, Charm, and Carrying the Egos; Part II: Refractions; 4. Sentiment and the Construction of Nicole Warren Diver; 5. Ophelia, Zelda, and the Women of Tender Is the Night; 6. The Uncanny in Fitzgerald's Sentimental Imagination; Part III: Influences

7. "The Queen Moon Is On Her Throne": Fitzgerald's Maternal Hero "Plagued By" Keats and Florence Nightingale8. "How Many Women Is Power": Dickens' Sarah Gamp and Ventriloquizing the Sentimental; 9. Sanctuary and Little Lord Fauntleroy: Sentiment, Sensation, and "Two Faces"; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8797-8

OCLC:

896873109