The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bringing together leading voices from across the globe , The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of-the-art scholarship on the renowned Jazz Age writer, as well as offering an approachable overview of his background, influences, and cultural context. This comprehensive volume features:- A substantial introduction by the editors and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies- A variety of national and transnational perspectives- Essays which consider Fitzgerald''s work via key contemporary approaches such as race studies, whiteness studies, queer studies, the digital humanities, literary geography, and ecocriticism- New comparative approaches that consider the author in the context of his contemporaries, including writers of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism- An innovative cluster of short essays by practitioners, reflecting on their work with Fitzgerald materialsOffering an indispensable resource for researchers and students alike, this handbook brings together the most exciting scholarship one a true giant of American literature.>

Préface
Publishing to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, this collection offers readers both general overviews of Fitzgerald's background, influences, and cultural contexts while also advancing some vital new research approaches to understanding Fitzgerald's body of work.

Auteur
Laura Rattray is Reader in American Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She was the 2011 recipient of the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service in American literature (sponsored by the MLA), and has received the Guggenheim fellowship, the senior National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, the Bunting Institute fellowship, and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Philosophical Association and others. She has published more than eighty-five books of criticism, some edited, including Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987) and Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), as well as studies of Ernest Hemingway, Zelda Fitzgerald, Barbara Kingsolver, and others. Recent books are A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present (2013) and Toni Morrison and the Maternal (2014).

Texte du rabat
Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of-the-art scholarship on the renowned Jazz Age writer, as well as offering an approachable overview of his background, influences, and cultural context. This comprehensive volume features: - A substantial introduction by the editors and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies - A variety of national and transnational perspectives - Essays which consider Fitzgerald's work via key contemporary approaches such as race studies, whiteness studies, queer studies, the digital humanities, literary geography, and ecocriticism - New comparative approaches that consider the author in the context of his contemporaries, including writers of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism - An innovative cluster of short essays by practitioners, reflecting on their work with Fitzgerald materials Offering an indispensable resource for researchers and students alike, this handbook brings together the most exciting scholarship one a true giant of American literature.

Contenu
Acknowledgments Preface Essays: My Life with Fitzgerald, Jackson R. Bryer Two Tickets to West Egg: The Rise and Range of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Tourism, Kirk Curnutt Introduction, Laura Rattray and Linda Wagner-Martin Part I: Fitzgerald and His Culture Fitzgerald, Modernism, and Race, Justine Baillie F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Harlem Renaissance, Michael Nowlin Scott's America, in Black and White: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Race Matters, Marc K. Dudley Unconscious Projects and Ethnic Prejudices in 'Indecision', J. Gerald Kennedy 'From one childhood to another:' The Queer Failure of Fitzgerald'sCurious Cases, H. J. E. Champion 'All the iridescence of the beginning of the world': Fitzgerald's Post-War New York, Alice Kelly My Bud, Dud: War Trauma and Male Friendship in The Great Gatsby, Michael Von Cannon F. Scott Fitzgerald Reading Women Writers, Jade Broughton Adams Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and the Question of Artistic Indebtedness: The Early Years, Gail D. Sinclair PART II: Novels 'Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes': A Narratological Reappraisal of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned, Marie-Agnès Gay Some Vague Top of the World: Princeton University, Affluence, and This Side of Paradise, Ahmed Honeini From Paradise to the Damned, Walter Raubicheck Fitzgerald's 'Forgotten' Naturalism and Movie Culture: The Beautiful and Damned and Tender Is the Night, Donna M. Campbell Fitzgerald and the Hollywood Novel Revisited, Kari Sund A Darker Shade of Green: The Great Gatsby and Fossil Fuel Capital, Niklas Salmose Fitzgerald/Hemingway: The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises, William Cain Between Mimesis and Fiction: Very Special Effects in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Love of the Last Tycoon, Pascale Antolin PART III: Neglected Genres Fitzgerald's Nonfiction, James L. W. West III F. Scott Fitzgerald's Early Playwriting, Laura Rattray 'Indispensable Rhythm': Scott Fitzgerald's Poetic Entanglements, Agata Handley F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's Restless Traveling or Their Own Version of Henry James's 'globe [] shrinking [] to the size of an orange', Elisabeth Bouzonviller 'The Cruise of the Rolling Junk': Scott and Zelda's forgotten road trip, Mark C. Taylor Part IV: Short Stories 'Somewhat Unpleasant': 'May Day,' Literary Failure, and the Modernist Short Story as Crisis, Michael J. Collins 'Once More the Belt is Tight:' The Rise and Fall of Fitzgerald's Career at the Saturday Evening Post, Jennifer Nolan Two Perspectives on Fitzgerald's 'The Rich Boy', Bryant Mangum The Socratic Structure of Fitzgerald's 'Ice Palace', James Plath 'The Boring, Roaring Twenties': The Politics of Boredom in Fitzgerald's Bernice Bobs Her Hair and Other Stories, Thomas Fahy 'Boats against the Current:' Being(s) in transit in 'The Love Boat' and 'The Rough Crossing', Catherine Delesalle-Nancey Part V: Teaching and Adaptation 'Who is this Gatsby anyhow?' (Some Phenomenological Reflections), Andrew Scheiber Teaching The Great Gatsby with When Washington Was in Vogue, Leslie Elaine Frost 'Very Distinctly Not Modern': Teaching 'The Crack-Up' Alongside 'Babylon Revisited', Catherine.Seltzer 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is Not About Barbering: What F. Scott Fitzgerald Can Contribute to Outcomes-Based Education, Sara Kosiba Devotedly, With Dearest Love: Bringing the Letters of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald to the Stage, Lorrie Kyle List of Contributors Index