The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Edited by Ruth Prigozy

• ISBN13: 9780521624749
• ISBN10: 0521624746
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Specially-commissioned essays by major scholars present a clear and comprehensive assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 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 an accessible picture of the background of American social and cultural change in the early decades of the twentieth century. The volume offers readers a complete account of Fitzgerald's work as well as suggestions for further reading.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	xi
Preface	xv
List of abbreviations	xvi
Chronology	xvii
Introduction: Scott, Zelda, and the culture of celebrity	1	(27)
Ruth Prigozy
F. Scott Fitzgerald, age consciousness, and the rise of American youth culture	28	(20)
Kirk Curnutt
The question of vocation in This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned	48	(9)
James L. W. West III
The short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald	57	(22)
Bryant Mangum
The Great Gatsby and the twenties	79	(16)
Ronald Berman
Tender is the Night and American history	95	(23)
Milton R. Stern
Fitzgerald's expatriate years and the European stories	118	(25)
J. Gerald Kennedy
Women in Fitzgerald's fiction	143	(21)
Rena Sanderson
Fitzgerald's nonfiction	164	(25)
Scott Donaldson
Fitzgerald and Hollywood	189	(20)
Alan Margolies
The critical reputation of F. Scott Fitzgerald	209	(26)
Jackson R. Bryer
Bibliography	235	(30)
Index	265