F.Scott Fitzgerald'S Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness
Published on 10. August 2007
Book
Hardback
XII, 201 pages
978-1-4039-7671-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 in an elite, international literary field.
Reviews / Votes
'Nowlin's scholarly and interesting book illuminates the street-of-dreams intersection where Fitzgerald the literary artist confronted his counterpart, the popular fiction writer.' - Scott Donaldson, Biographer of Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald
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Series
Edition
2007 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
XII, 201 p.
Dimensions
Height: 207 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
358 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-7671-0 (9781403976710)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-11647-5
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Michael Nowlin | M. Nowlin
F.Scott Fitzgerald's Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness
Book
01/2014
Palgrave MacMillan
€90.94
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Person
MICHAEL NOWLIN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Content
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'the Cultural World' and the Lure of the American Scene The Racial Make-up of the Entertainer in Two Early Post Stories Early Success, Holy Irony, and the Cultural Field of The Beautiful and Damned 'Trashy Imaginings' and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby 'The Model for the Age': The Distinction of Tender Is the Night 'A Gentile's Tragedy': Bearing the Word About Hollywood in The Love of the Last Tycoon 'Dearly Beloved': The Black Face of Fitzgerald's Ambition