F. Scott Fitzgerald in context / edited by Bryant Mangum, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mangum, Bryant, 1943- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 476 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald serves as a compelling and incisive chronicle of the Jazz Age and Depression Era. This collection explores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with, and keenly observant of, the social, historical and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Original essays from forty international scholars survey a wide range of critical and biographical scholarship published on Fitzgerald, examining how it has evolved in relation to critical and cultural trends. The essays also reveal the micro-contexts that have particular relevance for Fitzgerald's work - from the literary traditions of naturalism, realism and high modernism to the emergence of youth culture and prohibition, early twentieth-century fashion, architecture and design, and Hollywood - underscoring the full extent to which Fitzgerald internalized the world around him.

Contents:

Cover; F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Picture Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chronology; Part I Life and Works (1896-Present); 1 Biography; Notes; 2 Interpreting Fitzgerald's Ledger; Notes; 3 Letters; Notes; 4 Literary Style; Notes; 5 Literary Influences; Notes; 6 Intellectual Influences; Notes; 7 Contemporary Critical Reception; Notes; 8 The Fitzgerald Revival; Notes; Part II An Author's Formation (1896-1920); 9 Buffalo and Syracuse, New York; Notes

10 St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul Academy, and the St. Paul Academy Now and ThenNotes; 11 A Catholic Boyhood; Notes; 12 Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University, and the Nassau Literary Magazine; Notes; 13 World War I; Notes; 14 Zelda in the Shadows; Notes; 15 Fitzgerald's Southern Narrative; Notes; Part III Jazz Age Literary and Artistic Movements (1918-1929); 16 American Literary Realism; Notes; 17 Naturalism and High Modernism; Notes; 18 Avant-garde Trends; Notes; Part IV Historical and Social Contexts in the Jazz Age (1918-1929); 19 Prohibition in the Age of Jazz; Notes

20 Class Differences in Fitzgerald's WorksNotes; 21 Ethnic Stereotyping; Notes; 22 Gender in the Jazz Age; Notes; 23 Postwar Flappers; Notes; 24 Youth Culture; Notes; 25 American Expatriates in France; Notes; Part V Popular and Material Culture in the Jazz Age (1918-1929); 26 Popular Literary Tastes; Notes; 27 Magazines; Notes; 28 Broadway Melodies; Notes; 29 Stage and Screen Entertainment; Notes; 30 Consumer Culture and Advertising; Notes; 31 Fashion; Notes; 32 Transportation; Notes; 33 Parties; Notes; 34 Architecture and Design; Notes; Part VI The Depression Era (1929-1940)

35 The Crash and the AftermathNotes; 36 Fitzgerald and the Great Depression; Notes; 37 The Writer in Hollywood; Notes; 38 The Golden Age of Hollywood; Notes; 39 Hollywood and the Gossip Columnists; Notes; 40 Heroes and Hollywood; Notes; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23453-0

1-139-61013-9

1-139-60857-6

1-139-61199-2

1-139-62129-7

1-283-98664-7

1-139-62501-2

1-139-61571-8

0-511-92070-9

OCLC:

825767666