F.Scott Fitzgerald'S Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)

This book charts Fitzgerald's use of racial stereotypes to encode the dual nature of his literary ambition: his desire to be on the one hand a popular American entertainer, and on the other to make his mark among the elite members of an international literary field. Taking his cue from some under-appreciated stories, Michael Nowlin argues that Fitzgerald's early use of tropes from blackface minstrelsy anticipated his race-inflected treatment of divided artist figures in the major novels from "The Beautiful and Damned" to the unfinished "The Love of the Last Tycoon." At issue in all these novels, both formally and thematically, is the dynamic state of the modern, multi-faceted, and ethnically diverse American cultural field Fitzgerald was constantly re-negotiating in order to meet his goal of long-term literary success.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	M. Nowlin
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	201
Edition:	2007 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-7671-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4039-7671-6
Barcode:	9781403976710

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