F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby: Essays, Articles, Reviews

by Nicolas Tredell (Editor)

Overview

More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and contextualizes the key critical debates surrounding Fitzgerald's novel. The extracts and essays included here reflect The Great Gatsby's place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques and explore the influence of this "Lost Generation" work on later American writings. In considering secondary sources from the twenties to the present, this smart and sophisticated study guide offers readers an invaluable resource on this complex rendering of a moment in American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231115353
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	08/11/1999
Series:	Columbia Critical Guides
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nicolas Tredell teaches at the University of Sussex.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	5
Chapter 1	The Road from West Egg: Early Reviews to Posthumous Revival, 1925-49	11
Chapter 2	Dream, Time and Craft: Interpreting Gatsby in the 1950s	51
Chapter 3	Precision Lenses and New Optics: Deeper Visions and Dissenting Views in the 1960s	73
Chapter 4	History, Herstory and Other Stories: From Political Gatsby to Gay Gatsby in the 1970s	104
Chapter 5	New Roads to West Egg: Brecht, Bakhtin and Baudrillard at Gatsby's party; postmodernism, popular culture and gender in Gatsby criticism in the 1980s and 1990s	136
	Bibliography	167
	Notes	175

Editorial Reviews

Traces the evolving criticism of the 1925 novel from its first reception to the 1990s, and excerpts substantially from what Tredell considers the best that has been said and thought about it. The chapters are arranged chronologically to show the changing climate and concerns through the decades. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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