The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108813909 ISBN 13: 9781108813907

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Nowlin is Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness (2007) and Literary Ambition and the African American Novel (2019), and editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (Broadview) and Richard Wright in Context.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108813909
• ISBN 13: 9781108813907
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Nowlin Michael