The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald

This book provides an authoritative overview of F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction and career, featuring essays by leading Fitzgerald specialists.

Michael Nowlin (Edited by)

9781108813907, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 November 2023

300 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.43 kg

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 21st century, and an up-to-date bibliography of the best Fitzgerald scholarship and criticism for further reading.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Chronology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: F. Scott Fitzgerald: 'A Writer Only' Michael Nowlin
1. Youth, Maturation, and Adult Sexuality Kirk Curnutt
2. The Beautiful and Damned and Literary Decadence Kirsten MacLeod
3. The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald Bryant Mangum
4. 'The Modern Old Master': Reading The Great Gatsby Again Sarah Churchwell
5. 'I Was Gone Again': Disintegration, Fragmentation, and the Recovery of Nicole Warren Diver in Tender Is the Night Erin E. Templeton
6. Fitzgerald's Expatriate Years and the European Stories J. Gerald Kennedy
7. Legends of Zelda Anne Margaret Daniel
8. Fitzgerald's Nonfiction Scott Donaldson
9. Great Art, Small Art, and Modernist Cachet: Reading Himself and His Contemporaries Michael Nowlin
10. Fitzgerald and Hollywood Tom Cerasulo
11. Fitzgerald's Cultural and Critical Reputation in the Twenty-First Century Jackson R. Bryer
Select Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]