F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspectives

by Steven Frye (Contribution by), Jackson R. Bryer (Editor), Alan Margolies (Editor), Ruth Prigozy (Editor), George Garrett (Contribution by)

Overview

Years after his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald continues to captivate both the popular and the critical imagination. This collection of essays presents fresh insights into his writing, discussing neglected texts and approaching familiar works from new perspectives.

Seventeen scholarly articles deal not only with Fitzgerald's novels but with his stories and essays as well, considering such topics as the Roman Catholic background of The Beautiful and Damned and the influence of Mark Twain on Fitzgerald's work and self-conception. The volume also features four personal essays by Fitzgerald's friends Budd Schulberg, Frances Kroll Ring, publisher Charles Scribner III, and writer George Garrett that shed new light on his personal and professional lives. Together these contributions demonstrate the continued vitality of Fitzgerald's work and establish new directions for ongoing discussions of his life and writing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820323756
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	01/07/2004
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jackson R. Bryer (Editor)
JACKSON R. BRYER is a professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Alan Margolies (Editor)
ALAN MARGOLIES is a professor emeritus of English at John Jay College, City University of New York.

Ruth Prigozy (Editor)
RUTH PRIGOZY is a professor of English at Hofstra University.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
Part 1	Personal Responses
	Remembering Scott	3
	Memories of Scott	18
	F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Publisher's Perspective	22
	The Good Ghost of Scott Fitzgerald	28
Part 2	The Novels
	Princeton as Modernist's Hermeneutics: Rereading This Side of Paradise	39
	Keats's Lamian Legacy: Romance and the Performance of Gender in The Beautiful and Damned	51
	Fitzgerald's Catholicism Revisited: The Eucharistic Element in The Beautiful and Damned	63
	The Great Gatsby--The Text as Construct: Narrative Knots and Narrative Unfolding	78
	Fitzgerald and Proust: Connoisseurs of Kisses	90
	Redirecting Fitzgerald's "Gaze": Masculine Perception and Cinematic License in The Great Gatsby	102
	The Rendering of Proper Names, Titles, and Allusions in the French Translations of The Great Gatsby	115
	Tourism and Modernity in Tender Is the Night	130
	Fitzgerald's Use of History in The Last Tycoon	142
Part 3	The Stories and Essays
	Tamed or Idealized: Judy Jones's Dilemma in "Winter Dreams"	159
	Inside "Outside the Cabinet-Maker's"	173
	Whose "Babylon Revisited" Are We Teaching? Cowley's Fortunate Corruption--and Others Not So Fortunate	180
	Art and Autobiography in Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited"	192
	Fitzgerald's "Crack-up" Essays Revisited: Fictions of the Self, Mirrors for a Nation	203
	Going Toward the Flame: Reading Allusions in the Esquire Stories	216
	A Dark Ill-Lighted Place: Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Philippe Count of Darkness and Philip Counter-Espionage Agent	231
Part 4	Toward an American Tradition
	Fitzgerald's Twain	253
	Notes on Contributors	269
	Index	273

Editorial Reviews

This book makes a significant contribution to Fitzgerald studies. It is an exciting and challenging series of essays.

University of Georgia - James E. Nagel

"This book makes a significant contribution to Fitzgerald studies. It is an exciting and challenging series of essays."--James E. Nagel, University of Georgia

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