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- The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Youth, Maturation, and Adult Sexuality
- Chapter 2 The Beautiful and Damned and Literary Decadence
- Chapter 3 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Chapter 4 “The Modern Old Master”
- Chapter 5 “I Was Gone Again”
- Chapter 6 Fitzgerald’s Expatriate Years and the European Stories
- Chapter 7 Legends of Zelda
- Chapter 8 Fitzgerald’s Nonfiction
- Chapter 9 Great Art, Small Art, and Modernist Cachet
- Chapter 10 Fitzgerald and Hollywood
- Chapter 11 Fitzgerald’s Cultural and Critical Reputation in the Twenty-First Century
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
F. Scott Fitzgerald: “A Writer Only”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2023
- The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Cambridge Companions To Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Youth, Maturation, and Adult Sexuality
- Chapter 2 The Beautiful and Damned and Literary Decadence
- Chapter 3 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Chapter 4 “The Modern Old Master”
- Chapter 5 “I Was Gone Again”
- Chapter 6 Fitzgerald’s Expatriate Years and the European Stories
- Chapter 7 Legends of Zelda
- Chapter 8 Fitzgerald’s Nonfiction
- Chapter 9 Great Art, Small Art, and Modernist Cachet
- Chapter 10 Fitzgerald and Hollywood
- Chapter 11 Fitzgerald’s Cultural and Critical Reputation in the Twenty-First Century
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald offers both new and familiar readers an authoritative guide to the full scope of Fitzgerald’s literary legacy. Gathering the critical insights of leading Fitzgerald specialists, it includes newly commissioned essays on The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald’s judgment of his peers, and Fitzgerald’s screenwriting and Hollywood years, alongside updated and revised versions of four of the best essays from the first edition on such topics as youth, maturity, and sexuality; the short stories and autobiographical essays; and Americans in Europe. It also includes an essay on Fitzgerald’s critical and cultural reputation in the first decades of the twenty-first century and an up-to-date bibliography of the best Fitzgerald scholarship and criticism for further reading.
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- The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald , pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023