F.Scott Fitzgerald'S Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness

by M. Nowlin

Overview

This book charts Fitzgerald's use of racial stereotypes to encode the dual nature of his literary ambition: his desire to be on the one hand a popular American entertainer, and on the other to make his mark in an elite, international literary field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403976710
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	08/10/2007
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	201
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL NOWLIN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada.

Table of Contents

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'the Cultural World' and the Lure of the American Scene The Racial Make-up of the Entertainer in Two Early Post Stories Early Success, Holy Irony, and the Cultural Field of The Beautiful and Damned 'Trashy Imaginings' and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby 'The Model for the Age': The Distinction of Tender Is the Night 'A Gentile's Tragedy': Bearing the Word About Hollywood in The Love of the Last Tycoon 'Dearly Beloved': The Black Face of Fitzgerald's Ambition

Editorial Reviews

'Nowlin's scholarly and interesting book illuminates the street-of-dreams intersection where Fitzgerald the literary artist confronted his counterpart, the popular fiction writer.' - Scott Donaldson, Biographer of Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald

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