F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context

Cambridge University Press, 3/18/2013
EAN 9781107009196, ISBN10: 1107009197

Hardcover, 514 pages, 23.2 x 15.4 x 4.3 cm
Language: English

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.

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
List of abbreviations
Preface
Chronology Gretchen Comba
Part I. Life and Works (1896–Present)
1. Biography Cathy Barks
2. Interpreting Fitzgerald's ledger James L. W. West, III
3. Letters Bryant Mangum
4. Literary style Kirk Curnutt
5. Literary influences William Blazek
6. Intellectual influences Ronald Berman
7. Contemporary critical reception Jackson R. Bryer
8. The Fitzgerald revival Ruth Prigozy
Part II. An Author's Formation (1896–1920)
9. Buffalo and Syracuse, New York Joel Kabot
10. St Paul, Minnesota, St Paul Academy, and St Paul Academy now and then Deborah Davis Schlacks
11. A Catholic boyhood
Newman School and The Newman News, and Monsignor Cyril Sigourney Webster Fay Pearl James
12. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University, and The Nassau Literary Magazine Edward Gillin
13. World War I James H. Meredith
14. Marriage to Zelda Sayre Linda Wagner-Martin
15. Fitzgerald's southern narrative
the Tarleton, Georgia stories Bryant Mangum
Part III. Jazz Age Literary and Artistic Movements (1918–29)
16. American literary realism James Nagel
17. Naturalism and high modernism Michael Nowlin
18. Avant-garde trends Linda Patterson Miller
Part IV. Historical and Social Contexts in the Jazz Age (1918–29)
19. Prohibition Linda De Roche
20. Class structure Peter Hays
21. Ethnic stereotyping Suzanne del Gizzo
22. Gender in the Jazz Age Heidi M. Kunz
23. Post-war flappers Kate Drowne
24. Youth culture Jarom McDonald
25. American expatriates in France Elisabeth Bouzonviller
Part V. Popular and Material Culture in the Jazz Age (1918–29)
26. Popular literary tastes Philip McGowan
27. Magazines Robert Beuka
28. Broadway melodies Anthony J. Berret
29. Stage and screen entertainment Walter Raubicheck and Steven Goldleaf
30. Consumer culture and advertising Lauren Rule Maxwell
31. Fashion Doni M. Wilson
32. Transportation Deborah Clarke
33. Parties Christopher Ames
34. Architecture and design Bonnie Shannon McMullen
Part VI. The Depression Era (1929–40)
35. The Crash and the aftermath Richard Godden
36. The Great Depression Michael K. Glenday
37. The writer in Hollywood Richard Fine
38. The Golden Age of Hollywood Laura Rattray
39. Hollywood and the gossip columnists Gail D. Sinclair
40. Heroes and Hollywood Robert Sklar
Further reading.

'Bryant Mangum's F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context is the kind of collection we need. Throughout, it reads smoothly and effectively like a literary-cultural biography; its focused, topical essays cover myriad aspects of Fitzgerald's life, work, and times … any student or teacher-scholar looking to do serious work on Fitzgerald should read this book.' The Fitzgerald Review