F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107009196)

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.

Author: Bryant Mangum
ISBN-10: 1107009197
ISBN-13: 9781107009196
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/18/2013
Pages: 516
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.80w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2013