
The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ruth Prigozy(Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 25. October 2001
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Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-521-62474-9 (ISBN)
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Eleven specially commissioned essays by major Fitzgerald scholars present a clearly written and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a writer and as a public and private figure. No aspect of his career is overlooked, from his first novel published in 1920, through his more than 170 short stories, to his last unfinished Hollywood novel. Contributions present the reader with a full and accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The introduction traces Fitzgerald's career as a literary and public figure, and examines the extent to which public recognition has affected his reputation among scholars, critics, and general readers over the past sixty years. This volume offers undergraduates, graduates and general readers a full account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further exploration of his work.
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'Ruth Prigozy has done a wonderful job of ensuring that her contributors write in an accessible and jargon-free style and cover the full range of Fitzgerald's writings ... If ... the editor's aim was to produce 'a full and accessible picture' of the author's life and career, then she is to be congratulated on having assembled a set of contributors who provide exactly that.' The F. Scott Fitzgerald ReviewMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-62474-9 (9780521624749)
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Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English at Hofstra University and Executive Director and Co-Founder of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. She is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald: An Illustrated Life, editor of The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, and co-editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald: New Perspective. She has also written many articles on Fitzgerald, Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, D. W. Griffith, and Billy Wilder among others.
Content
List of contributors; Chronology; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Scott, Zelda, and the culture of celebrity Ruth Prigozy; 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, age consciousness, and the rise of American youth culture Kirk Curnutt; 3. The question of vocation in This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned James L. W. West III; 4. The short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Bryant Mangum; 5. The Great Gatsby and the twenties Ronald Berman; 6. Tender is the Night and American history Milton R. Stern; 7. Things not in the guidebook: Fitzgerald's expatriate years and the European experience J. Gerald Kennedy; 8. Women in Fitzgerald's fiction Rena Sanderson; 9. Fitzgerald's non-fiction Scott Donaldson; 10. Fitzgerald and Hollywood Alan Margolies; 11. The critical reputation of F. Scott Fitzgerald Jackson R. Bryer; Index.