Description
Book SynopsisA collection of eleven essays on the career and texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald, focusing on the delicate balance in Fitzgerald’s career between money and literary respectability.
Trade Review“James L. W. West III uses Fitzgerald’s original documents—many of which have never been studied—to illuminate new aspects of the writer's life and career. As a textual scholar, a damned good historicist, and the only person who has examined this archival material in such depth, West is the ideal scholar to write this book.”
—Robert W. Trogdon,author of The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Editorial Note
1. Fitzgerald’s Last Triangle “Performance”
2. Fitzgerald and Moran Tudury
3. The Great Gatsby, Broadway 1926
4. Fitzgerald and Psychiatry
5. The Ledger as Autobiography
6. Fitzgerald’s Seven-Year Plan
7. Punctuating by Ear
8. Interpreting “Jacob’s Ladder”
9. Decisions, Decisions: Editing The Great Gatsby
10. Le déluge? New Editions of The Great Gatsby
11. The Cambridge Edition and the Cambridge Plumber
Endpiece: Gatsby Movie (in Skeltonics)
Index
