{"product_id":"the-romance-of-regionalism-in-the-work-of-f-scott-and-zelda-fitzgerald-the-south-side-of-paradise-9781666909166","title":"The Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Romance of Regionalism in the Work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The South Side of Paradise explores resonances of \"Southernness\" in works by American culture’s leading literary couple. At the height of their fame, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald dramatized their relationship as a romance of regionalism, as the charming tale of a Northern man wooing a Southern belle. Their writing exposes deeper sectional conflicts, however: from the seemingly unexorcisable fixation with the Civil War and the historical revisionism of the Lost Cause to popular culture’s depiction of the South as an artistically deprived, economically broken backwater, the couple challenged early twentieth-century stereotypes of life below the Mason-Dixon line. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom their most famous efforts (The Great Gatsby and Save Me the Waltz) to their more overlooked and obscure (Scott’s 1932 story “Family in the Wind,” Zelda’s “The Iceberg,” published in 1918 before she even met her husband), Scott and Zelda returned obsessively to the challenges of defining Southern identity in a country in which “going south” meant decay and dissolution. Contributors to this volume tackle a range of Southern topics, including belle culture, the picturesque and the Gothic, Confederate commemoration and race relations, and regional reconciliation. As the collection demonstrates, the Fitzgeralds’ fortuitous meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1918 sparked a Southern renascence in miniature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Curnutt and Kosiba collection moves our definition of regionalism into new territories: in these essays geography becomes economics and gender, and what we think we know about the Fitzgeralds expands usefully. Providing new perspectives on the fiction and non-fiction of both Zelda and Scott, The Romance of Regionalism also showcases a new range of brilliant critics.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this collection about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald adopt a new perspective, looking at them both from the American South. The results are excellent. We don't normally think of the Fitzgeralds as regionalist writers, but perhaps they were --- in the best sense.\u003c\/p\u003e -- James L. W. West III, General Editor Emeritus, Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Scott and Zelda on the South Side of Paradise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirk Curnutt and Sara A. Kosiba\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Inconstant Circles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: Sara Mayfield: Zelda’s Southern Biographer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJennifer Horne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Bittersweet Memories: Southern Womanhood in the Work of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Sarah Haardt Mencken, and Estelle Oldham Faulkner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshley Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Two: Tarleton Trespasses: City Limits and Artistic Expanses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: The Sounds and the Smells of the South: The Meaning and Use of the Auditory and Olfactory in Fitzgerald’s Tarleton Trilogy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNiklas Salmose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: From Jelly-Bean to Jazz-Master (and Back): Region, Class, and Masquerade in the Jim Powell Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Beuka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: What’s on Fitzgerald’s Bookcase?: A Rereading of ‘The Jelly-Bean’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Allen Brooks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Six: Lamenting the Loss of Old Southern Charm: ‘The Last of the Belles’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren Rule Maxwell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three: Contested Territories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: Going South: Disaster Beneath the Mason-Dixon Line in The Beautiful and Damned\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ. Bret Maney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: The Georgia-Kentucky Border and the Southern Subtext of The Great Gatsby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBryant Mangum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine: Southern Domesticity Abroad: A Belle’s Failed Guide to Housekeeping\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRickie-Ann Legleitner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten: Expressing the Inexpressible: The Logic of Sensation in Zelda Fitzgerald’s Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamantha Bankston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Four: Border Skirmishes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven: Nostalgic Exile: Mapping the South and American Modernity in ‘The Swimmers’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Twelve: ‘Family in the Wind’: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Last Great Saturday Evening Post Story\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePark Bucker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Thirteen: ‘Those Years Were Bitter on the Border’: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Aftermath of Civil War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen M. Turner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: Cartographies Interrupted: The Love of the Last Tycoon and Caesar’s Things\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKirk Curnutt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042005057879,"sku":"9781666909166","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-romance-of-regionalism-in-the-work-of-f-scott-and-zelda-fitzgerald-the-south-side-of-paradise-9781666909166","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}