F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction : from ragtime to Swing Time / Jade Broughton Adams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Jade Broughton, author.

Series:

Modern American literature and the new twentieth century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

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

Short stories, American--History and criticism.

Short stories, American.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 216 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered primarily as a novelist, but he wrote nearly two hundred short stories for popular magazines such as the widely-read Saturday Evening Post. These are vividly infused with the new popular culture of the early twentieth century, from jazz to motion pictures. By exploring Fitzgerald's fascination with the intertwined spheres of dance, music, theatre and film, this book demonstrates how Fitzgerald innovatively imported practices from other popular cultural media into his short stories, showing how jazz age culture served as more than mere period detail in his work.

Contents:

1 'Dancing Modern Suggestive Dances that are Simply Savagery': Fitzgerald and Ragtime Dance p. 30

2 The 'Chocolate Arabesques' of Josephine Baker: Fitzgerald and Jazz Dance p. 58

3 'Satyre upon a Saxaphone': Fitzgerald and Music p. 85

4 'The One about Sitting on His Top Hat and Climbing up His Shirt Front': Fitzgerald and Musical Theatre p. 114

5 'A More Glittering, a Grosser Power': Fitzgerald and Film p. 140.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1474424686

9781474424684

OCLC:

1039933622