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Front Matter Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information F. SCOTT FITZGeraLD IN CONTEXT 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. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information F. Scott Fitzgerald at his desk, ca. 1921 (Princeton University Library). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information F. ScoTT FITZGera LD IN CONTEXT Edited by BRYANT MANGum Virginia Commonwealth University © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi, Mexico City Cambridge University Press 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10013-2473, USA www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107009196 © Cambridge University Press 2013 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2013 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data 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 Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information 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 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information vi Contents 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information Contents vii 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information viii Contents 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information Illustrations 1.1. F. Scott Fitzgerald, study by Gordon Bryant (Shadowland, January 1921) page 2 11.1. F. Scott Fitzgerald (first row, third from left) with Newman School football team, ca. 1912 (Minnesota Historical Society) 114 14.1. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, study by Gordon Bryant (Metropolitan Magazine, June 1922) 144 23.1. “Flapper” by Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle Saturday( Evening Post, February 4, 1922) 244 33.1. Dust Jacket for Tales of the Jazz Age by John Held, Jr. (Tales of the Jazz Age, 1922) 342 38.1. Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer, ca. 1936 (Courtesy of Mark A. Vieira and the Starlight Studio) 398 39.1. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham in Encino, California in 1939 at the Horton estate (Courtesy of the Sheilah Graham Westbrook estate) 410 40.1. Irving Thalberg, ca. 1935 (Courtesy of Mark A. Vieira and the Starlight Studio) 420 ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00919-6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context Spec SD1 Date 26-july Edited by Bryant Mangum Frontmatter More information Contributors Christopher Ames is Professor of English at Washington College. He is the author of The Life of the Party: Festive Vision in Modern Fiction and Movies About the Movies: Hollywood Reflected. He has published articles on literary modernism, the Hollywood novel, and Woody Allen. Cathy W. Barks is Associate Director of the Honors College at the University of Maryland, where she teaches American literature. She is the coeditor of Dear Scott/Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Ronald Berman is Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus, University of California at San Diego. He has been Executive Officer for the District Intelligence Office, FIRST Naval District, and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include The Great Gatsby and Modern Times; The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s World of Ideas; and Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties. He has been awarded the Medal of the City of New York. Anthony J. Berret, S. J., is a member of the English Department at St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia. Author of Mark Twain and Shakespeare: A Cultural Legacy, he has written articles on Mark Twain and on music and literature in the works of Toni Morrison and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Robert Beuka is Professor of English at Bronx Community College, City University of New York. He has published on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, as well as film, popular culture, nature writing, and suburban studies. His first book, SuburbiaNation (2004), examined the depiction of American suburbia in fiction and film, and his latest book,American Icon (2011), traces the critical recep- tion and cultural impact of Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby.
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