Kirk Curnutt: Introduction
Jackson R. Bryer: F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940: A Brief
Biography
Fitzgerald in His Time
1: James L. W. West III: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Professional
Author
2: Ronald Berman: Fitzgerald's Intellectual Context
3: Kirk Curnutt: Fitzgerald's Consumer World
4: Ruth Prigozy: Fitzgerald's Flappers and Flapper Films of the
Jazz Age: Behind the Morality
5: James H. Meredith: Fitzgerald and War
Illustrated Chronology
Albert J. DeFazio III: Bibliographical Essay: The Contours of
Fitzgerald's Second Act
Contributors
Index
Kirk Curnutt is Professor of English at Troy State University Montgomery.
"Restores Fitzgerald to his literary, intellectual, and cultural
contexts.... Delightfully jargon-free and fulfilling its brief to
provide an interdisciplinary and historically sensitive context for
Fitzgerald's work, the collection also contains much perceptive
close reading of the novels and stories.... Curnutt's own rather
dazzling contribution to the collection explores Fitzgerald's
ambiguous attitude towards consumerism.... A superb illustrated
chronology
and bibliographical essay completes a worthy volume."--Times
Literary Supplement
"A collection of valuable resources and new essays by some of the
most distinguished scholars in Fitzgerald studies.... There are
clearly many rewards to be found in A Historical Guide to F. Scott
Fitzgerald. The essays are compelling.... It is an important and
useful volume for students and scholars of Fitzgerald and his
work."--The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
"A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald will prove useful for
academics, graduate students, and even undergraduates engaged in
learning more about the Jazz Age America that inspired Fitzgerald's
fiction. In particular, the volume's brief biography and
illustrated chronology will serve as valuable teaching tools in an
undergraduate survey, in which historical context is often
sacrificed for broader literary coverage. Curnutt and his
contributors have
provided excellent examples of how combining literary studies,
history, and cultural studies can produce vibrant images and
important insights into a world almost forgotten."--Journal of the
Midwest Modern
Language Association
"Restores Fitzgerald to his literary, intellectual, and cultural
contexts.... Delightfully jargon-free and fulfilling its brief to
provide an interdisciplinary and historically sensitive context for
Fitzgerald's work, the collection also contains much perceptive
close reading of the novels and stories.... Curnutt's own rather
dazzling contribution to the collection explores Fitzgerald's
ambiguous attitude towards consumerism.... A superb illustrated
chronology
and bibliographical essay completes a worthy volume."--Times
Literary Supplement
"A collection of valuable resources and new essays by some of the
most distinguished scholars in Fitzgerald studies.... There are
clearly many rewards to be found in A Historical Guide to F. Scott
Fitzgerald. The essays are compelling.... It is an important and
useful volume for students and scholars of Fitzgerald and his
work."--The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review
"A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald will prove useful for
academics, graduate students, and even undergraduates engaged in
learning more about the Jazz Age America that inspired Fitzgerald's
fiction. In particular, the volume's brief biography and
illustrated chronology will serve as valuable teaching tools in an
undergraduate survey, in which historical context is often
sacrificed for broader literary coverage. Curnutt and his
contributors have
provided excellent examples of how combining literary studies,
history, and cultural studies can produce vibrant images and
important insights into a world almost forgotten."--Journal of the
Midwest Modern
Language Association
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