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A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)
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A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback)
Series: Historical Guides to American Authors
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Although perceived in his own day as a lightweight chronicler of
1920s trends and fads, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) is now
recognized as one of the most important writers of the twentieth
century. Whether for his classic novels (The Great Gatsby, Tender
is the Night), his frequently anthologized short stories ("Babylon
Revisited," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"), or his searing essays of
personal examination (The Crack-Up), Fitzgerald is rightly
celebrated as a master stylist who plumbs the depths of love, loss,
and longing. Unfortunately, much of the interest in Fitzgerald has
focused on biographical concerns, including his meteoric rise to
fame, his tempestuous marriage to quintessential flapper Zelda
Sayre, his rivalry with Ernest Hemingway, and his tragic descent
into alcoholism and depression. The resulting, somewhat distorted,
image of Fitzgerald has been that of as a self-destructive literary
playboy. Even scholarly treatments of the author have tended to
depict him as a mere spokesman for the Lost Generation, a symbol of
the excesses of his era, without properly appreciating the range of
his writing or his intellect. This volume of historically minded,
newly commissioned essays looks beyond the Jazz Age facade to
topics that reveal how Fitzgerald's work both illumines and
challenges conceptions of his milieu. Studies of the literary
marketplace of the 1920s, the influence of public intellectuals
such as Walter Lippmann and H. L. Mencken, film and its treatment
of the New Woman, and the aftereffects of World War I all document
the depth and breadth of Fitzgerald's thinking.
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