F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Fiction: From Ragtime to Swing Time (Modern American Literature and the New Twentieth Century) - Softcover

Broughton Adams, Jade

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474473164 ISBN 13: 9781474473163

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A revisionist reading of Fitzgerald’s short stories through the lens of popular culture from the 1910s to the 1930s
F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered primarily as a novelist, but he wrote nearly two hundred short stories for popular magazines such as the widely-read Saturday Evening Post. These are vividly infused with the new popular culture of the early twentieth century, from jazz to motion pictures. By exploring Fitzgerald’s fascination with the intertwined spheres of dance, music, theatre and film, this book demonstrates how Fitzgerald innovatively imported practices from other popular cultural media into his short stories, showing how jazz age culture served as more than mere period detail in his work.
Key Features
Interdisciplinary formal and thematic analysis of popular cultural references in Fitzgerald’s short fictionOffers fresh readings of longstanding concepts in Fitzgerald studies, such as his ‘double vision’Contributes to the growing field of popular cultural studies of modernist authors

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About the Author

Jade Broughton Adams is an Independent Scholar, specialising in American fiction and popular culture of the 1920s and 1930s. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, and completed a PhD at the University of Leicester. Her doctoral research focused on the use of parody in the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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A revisionist reading of Fitzgerald’s short stories through the lens of popular culture from the 1910s to the 1930sF. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered primarily as a novelist, but he wrote nearly two hundred short stories for popular magazines such as the widely-read Saturday Evening Post. These are vividly infused with the new popular culture of the early twentieth century, from jazz to motion pictures. By exploring Fitzgerald’s fascination with the intertwined spheres of dance, music, theatre and film, this book demonstrates how Fitzgerald innovatively imported practices from other popular cultural media into his short stories, showing how jazz age culture served as more than mere period detail in his work.Jade Broughton Adams is an independent scholar, specialising in American fiction and popular culture of the 1920s and 1930s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474473164
• ISBN 13: 9781474473163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232