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Brown, David S. (David Scott), 1966-
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Marriage.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Nostalgia in literature.
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Brown, David S. (David Scott), 1966-
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Marriage.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Nostalgia in literature.
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Paradise
lost
: a
life
of
F
.
Scott
Fitzgerald
/ David S. Brown.
by
Brown, David S. (David
Scott
), 1966-
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
Call #:
921 F553br
Subjects
Fitzgerald
,
F
.
Scott
(Francis
Scott
), 1896-1940.
Fitzgerald
,
F
.
Scott
(Francis
Scott
), 1896-1940 -- Marriage.
Fitzgerald
,
F
.
Scott
(Francis
Scott
), 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Fitzgerald
, Zelda, 1900-1948.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Nostalgia in literature.
ISBN:
9780674504820 (hc.)
Description:
397 p. , 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Clio and
Scott
-- Part I. Beginnings, 1896-1920: Prince and pauper -- Celtic blood -- Forever Princeton -- Golden girl -- Opposites alike -- Part II. Building up, 1920-1925: Trouble in
paradise
-- Corruptions : the early stories -- The knock-off artist -- Rich boy, poor boy -- The wages of sin : The beautiful and damned -- Exile in Great Neck -- After the gold rush : The Great Gatsby -- Part III. Breaking down, 1925-1940 -- Adrift abroad -- Emotional bankruptcy -- Penance -- Far from home -- Jazz Age Jeremiah -- Book of fathers : Tender is the night -- Purgatory -- De profundis --
Life
in a company town -- Sentimental education -- Stahr fall -- Ghosts and legends, 1940 and after -- Zelda after
Scott
--
Life
after death.
Summary:
"Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the
Lost
Generation,
F
.
Scott
Fitzgerald
was at heart a moralist struck by the nation's shifting mood and manners after World War I. Biographer David Brown contends that
Fitzgerald
's deepest allegiances were to a fading antebellum world he associated with his father's Chesapeake Bay roots. Yet as a midwesterner, an Irish Catholic, and a perpetually in-debt author, he felt like an outsider in the haute bourgeoisie haunts of Lake Forest, Princeton, and Hollywood--places that left an indelible mark on his worldview. Brown reexamines
Fitzgerald
's childhood, first loves, and difficult marriage to Zelda Sayre. He looks at
Fitzgerald
's friendship with Hemingway, the golden years that culminated with Gatsby, and his increasing alcohol abuse and declining fortunes which coincided with Zelda's institutionalization and the nation's economic collapse. Placing
Fitzgerald
in the company of Progressive intellectuals such as Charles Beard, Randolph Bourne, and Thorstein Veblen, Brown reveals
Fitzgerald
as a writer with an encompassing historical imagination not suggested by his reputation as "the chronicler of the Jazz Age." His best novels, stories, and essays take the measure of both the immediate moment and the more distant rhythms of capital accumulation, immigration, and sexual politics that were moving America further away from its Protestant agrarian moorings.
Fitzgerald
wrote powerfully about change in America, Brown shows, because he saw it as the dominant theme in his own family history and
life
." --Provided by publisher.
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