Twenty-First Century Readings of 'Tender is the Night'

by Blazek, William; Rattray, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781846310713
• ISBN10: 1846310717
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

F. Scott Fitzgerald's final completed novel,Tender is the Night, published in 1934 but written during the previous decade, is the quintessentially decadent story of Americans abroad in the Jazz Age. In this accessible collection of essays, an impressive congregation of North American and European scholars presents eleven new readings of this widely studied book. The list of noteworthy contributors, including the general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the editors of theF. Scott Fitzgerald Review, makes this volume required reading for Fitzgerald scholars and fans.

Author Biography

William Blazek is a senior lecturer in English literature at Liverpool Hope University, coeditor of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and coeditor of American Mythology: New Essays on Contemporary Literature, published by Liverpool University Press.

Laura Rattray is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Hull in England.

Table of Contents

'Can't we put it in writing?' : some short precursors to Tender is the night	p. 16
Tender is the night, 'jazzmania', and the Ellingson matricide	p. 34
Sanatorium society : the 'good' place in Tender is the night	p. 50
'Some fault in the plan' : Fitzgerald's critique of psychiatry in Tender is the night	p. 67
An 'unblinding of eyes' : the narrative vision of Tender is the night	p. 85
Si le soleil ne revenait pas : Swiss clockwork gone mad in Tender is the night	p. 103
'A unity less conventional but not less serviceable' : a narratological history of Tender is the night	p. 121
American Riviera : style and expatriation in Tender is the night	p. 143
'Out upon the Mongolian plain' : Fitzgerald's racial and ethnic cross-identifying in Tender is the night	p. 160
Gender anxiety : the unresolved dialectic of Fitzgerald's writing	p. 177
Tender is the night and the calculus of modern war	p. 192
Reading Fitzgerald reading Keats	p. 204
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