{"product_id":"the-great-gatsby-and-fitzgeralds-ronald-berman-9780817310738","title":"The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald's World of Ideas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBerman examines the intellectual and cultural milieu in which \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eGreat Gatsby \u003c\/i\u003ewas created--and challenges accepted interpretations of\u003cbr\u003eFitzgerald's greatest novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Great Gatsby\" and Fitzgerald's World of Ideas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efocuses on F. Scott Fitzgerald and the prevailing ideas and values\u003cbr\u003ethat permeated American society in the late teens and early twenties, providing\u003cbr\u003ea vivid portrait of the intellectual and cultural milieu in which \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eGreat Gatsby\u003c\/i\u003e was produced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new and original reading of \u003ci\u003eGatsby\u003c\/i\u003e discloses\u003cbr\u003eFitzgerald's remarkable awareness of the issues of his time and his debt\u003cbr\u003eto such philosophers and critics as William James, Josiah Royce, George\u003cbr\u003eSantayana, John Dewey, Walter Lippman, H. L. Mencken, and Edmund Wilson.\u003cbr\u003eRonald Berman's fresh approach considers the meaning of various ideas important\u003cbr\u003eto the novel: for example, those moral qualities governing both social\u003cbr\u003eand individual life. Berman's reading of the text reveals extraordinary\u003cbr\u003eemphases on matters that could productively be described as philosophical\u003cbr\u003e-- the nature of friendship, love, and the good life. But the text of the\u003cbr\u003enovel has many echoes, and the same concern with moral issues -- especially\u003cbr\u003ethose issues affecting democratic life - can be found in a number of other\u003cbr\u003etexts of the first quarter of the century. Vigorously debated throughout\u003cbr\u003eFitzgerald's own lifetime, these texts shed a completely new light on the\u003cbr\u003eidealism of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby \u003c\/i\u003eand on the penetrating view it has\u003cbr\u003eof life in a new form of American democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA noted Fitzgerald scholar, Berman makes it clear that\u003cbr\u003eaccepted interpretations of \u003ci\u003eThe Great Gatsby \u003c\/i\u003eand of Fitzgerald's\u003cbr\u003ework in general must be changed. Berman demonstrates that Fitzgerald wrote\u003cbr\u003ewithin a vast dialectic, relating the ideas of the twenties to those of\u003cbr\u003ethe \"old America\" described in so many of his works. Gatsby, Nick Carraway, \u003cbr\u003eand the other characters of Fitzgerald's greatest novel all have to consider\u003cbr\u003enot only their relationship to the present but also their distance from\u003cbr\u003ewhat was once a highly meaningful past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ronald Berman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817310738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817310738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.24h x 5.48w x 0.63d","brand":"Ronald Berman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46806917677311,"sku":"9780817310738","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b4b6c02-0981-4a0c-8c7e-1c0dfb05a747.jpg?v=1745378073","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-gatsby-and-fitzgeralds-ronald-berman-9780817310738","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}