Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of-the-art scholarship on the renowned Jazz Age writer, as well as offering an approachable overview of his background, influences, and cultural context.
This comprehensive volume features:
- A variety of national and transnational perspectives
- Essays which consider Fitzgerald's work via key contemporary approaches such as race studies, whiteness studies, queer studies, the digital humanities, literary geography, and ecocriticism
- New comparative approaches that consider the author in the context of his contemporaries, including writers of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism
- An innovative cluster of short essays by practitioners, reflecting on their work with Fitzgerald materials
Offering an indispensable resource for researchers and students alike, this handbook brings together the most exciting scholarship one a true giant of American literature.
Laura Rattray is Reader in American Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She was the 2011 recipient of the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service in American literature (sponsored by the MLA), and has received the Guggenheim fellowship, the senior National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, the Bunting Institute fellowship, and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Philosophical Association and others. She has published more than eighty-five books of criticism, some edited, including Sylvia Plath: A Biography (1987) and “Favored Strangers”: Gertrude Stein and Her Family (1995), as well as studies of Ernest Hemingway, Zelda Fitzgerald, Barbara Kingsolver, and others. Recent books are A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present (2013) and Toni Morrison and the Maternal (2014).