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Book SynopsisExplores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with the social, historical and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Highlighting elements of both high culture and popular culture, this book demonstrates the extent to which Fitzgerald embraced, internalized and came to embody the Jazz Age and Depression Era.
Trade Review'Bryant Mangum's F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context is the kind of collection we need. Throughout, it reads smoothly and effectively like a literary-cultural biography; its focused, topical essays cover myriad aspects of Fitzgerald's life, work, and times … any student or teacher-scholar looking to do serious work on Fitzgerald should read this book. … [It] is both rich and versatile …' The Fitzgerald Review
'Meticulous and impressively broad in scope and context, this collection offers informative yet entertaining insight into virtually every aspect of Fitzgerald's life, work, development and influences …These essays should be required reading for seminar classes featuring Fitzgerald. For that matter, anyone interested in Fitzgerald would do well to read the book in its entirely or choose at random from the interesting offerings … Highly recommended. All readers.' Choice
Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Preface; Chronology Gretchen Comba; Part I. Life and Works (1896–Present): 1. Biography Cathy Barks; 2. Interpreting Fitzgerald's ledger James L. W. West, III; 3. Letters Bryant Mangum; 4. Literary style Kirk Curnutt; 5. Literary influences William Blazek; 6. Intellectual influences Ronald Berman; 7. Contemporary critical reception Jackson R. Bryer; 8. The Fitzgerald revival Ruth Prigozy; Part II. An Author's Formation (1896–1920): 9. Buffalo and Syracuse, New York Joel Kabot; 10. St Paul, Minnesota, St Paul Academy, and St Paul Academy now and then Deborah Davis Schlacks; 11. A Catholic boyhood: Newman School and The Newman News, and Monsignor Cyril Sigourney Webster Fay Pearl James; 12. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University, and The Nassau Literary Magazine Edward Gillin; 13. World War I James H. Meredith; 14. Marriage to Zelda Sayre Linda Wagner-Martin; 15. Fitzgerald's southern narrative: the Tarleton, Georgia stories Bryant Mangum; Part III. Jazz Age Literary and Artistic Movements (1918–29): 16. American literary realism James Nagel; 17. Naturalism and high modernism Michael Nowlin; 18. Avant-garde trends Linda Patterson Miller; Part IV. Historical and Social Contexts in the Jazz Age (1918–29): 19. Prohibition Linda De Roche; 20. Class structure Peter Hays; 21. Ethnic stereotyping Suzanne del Gizzo; 22. Gender in the Jazz Age Heidi M. Kunz; 23. Post-war flappers Kate Drowne; 24. Youth culture Jarom McDonald; 25. American expatriates in France Elisabeth Bouzonviller; Part V. Popular and Material Culture in the Jazz Age (1918–29): 26. Popular literary tastes Philip McGowan; 27. Magazines Robert Beuka; 28. Broadway melodies Anthony J. Berret; 29. Stage and screen entertainment Walter Raubicheck and Steven Goldleaf; 30. Consumer culture and advertising Lauren Rule Maxwell; 31. Fashion Doni M. Wilson; 32. Transportation Deborah Clarke; 33. Parties Christopher Ames; 34. Architecture and design Bonnie Shannon McMullen; Part VI. The Depression Era (1929–40): 35. The Crash and the aftermath Richard Godden; 36. The Great Depression Michael K. Glenday; 37. The writer in Hollywood Richard Fine; 38. The Golden Age of Hollywood Laura Rattray; 39. Hollywood and the gossip columnists Gail D. Sinclair; 40. Heroes and Hollywood Robert Sklar; Further reading.
