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F. SCOtt FitzgERAlD in CO ntExt
The fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald serves as a compelling and inci-
sive chronicle of the Jazz Age and Depression eras. 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 tradi-
tions 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.
Bryant Mangum is Professor of English at Virginia Common-
wealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He is author of A Fortune
Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Stories and editor
of The Best Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
F. Scott Fitzgerald at his desk, ca. 1921 (Princeton University library).
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F. SCOtt FitzgER AlD
in COntExt
Edited by
BRyAnt MAngUM
Virginia Commonwealth University
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in context / [edited by] Bryant Mangum,
Virginia Commonwealth University.
pages cm
includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-1-107-00919-6
1. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896–1940 – Criticism and interpretation.
i. Mangum, Bryant, 1943– editor of compilation.
ps3511.i9z6153 2013
813′.52–dc23 2012033996
ISBN 978-1-107-00919-6 Hardback
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Contents
Illustrations page ix
Contributors xi
Preface xxi
Picture Acknowledgments xxvii
Abbreviations xxix
Chronology by Gretchen Comba xxxi
Part I. Life and Works (1896–Present)
1. Biography 3
Cathy W. Barks
2. interpreting Fitzgerald’s ledger 16
James L. W. West III
3. letters 24
Bryant Mangum
4. literary Style 34
Kirk Curnutt
5. literary influences 45
William Blazek
6. intellectual influences 56
Ronald Berman
7. Contemporary Critical Reception 66
Jackson R. Bryer
8. The Fitzgerald Revival 78
Ruth Prigozy
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Part II. An Author’s Formation (1896–1920)
9. Buffalo and Syracuse, new york 89
Joel Kabot
10. St. Paul, Minnesota, St. Paul Academy, and the St. Paul
Academy Now and Then 105
Deborah Davis Schlacks
11. A Catholic Boyhood: The newman School, the Newman
News, and Monsignor Cyril Sigourney Webster Fay 115
Pearl James
12. Princeton, new Jersey, Princeton University, and the Nassau
Literary Magazine 126
Edward Gillin
13. World War i 136
James H. Meredith
14. zelda in the Shadows 145
Linda Wagner-Martin
15. Fitzgerald’s Southern narrative: The tarleton, georgia, Stories 154
Bryant Mangum
Part III. Jazz Age Literary and Artistic
Movements (1918–1929)
16. American literary Realism 169
James Nagel
17. naturalism and High Modernism 179
Michael Nowlin
18. Avant-garde trends 191
Linda Patterson Miller
Part IV. Historical and Social Contexts in
the Jazz Age (1918–1929)
19. Prohibition in the Age of Jazz 205
Linda De Roche
20. Class Differences in Fitzgerald’s Works 215
Peter L. Hays
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21. Ethnic Stereotyping 224
Suzanne del Gizzo
22. gender in the Jazz Age 234
Heidi M. Kunz
23. Postwar Flappers 245
Kathleen Drowne
24. youth Culture 254
Jarom Lyle McDonald
25. American Expatriates in France 262
Elisabeth Bouzonviller
Part V. Popular and Material Culture in the
Jazz Age (1918–1929)
26. Popular literary tastes 273
Philip McGowan
27. Magazines 283
Robert Beuka
28. Broadway Melodies 293
Anthony J. Berret, S. J.
29. Stage and Screen Entertainment 302
Walter Raubicheck and Steven Goldleaf
30. Consumer Culture and Advertising 311
Lauren Rule Maxwell
31. Fashion 321
Doni M. Wilson
32. transportation 331
Deborah Clarke
33. Parties 343
Christopher Ames
34. Architecture and Design 353
Bonnie Shannon McMullen
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Part VI. The Depression Era (1929–1940)
35. The Crash and the Aftermath 365
Richard Godden
36. Fitzgerald and the great Depression 377
Michael K. Glenday
37. The Writer in Hollywood 388
Richard Fine
38. The golden Age of Hollywood 399
Laura Rattray
39. Hollywood and the gossip Columnists 411
Gail D. Sinclair
40. Heroes and Hollywood 421
Robert Sklar
Further Reading 431
Index 451
