F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context [Paperback]

Explores many of the important social, historical and cultural contexts surrounding the life and works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.This volume explores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with, and keenly observant of, the social, historical, and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Highlighting elements of both high culture and popular culture, these wide-ranging and accessible essays demonstrate the extent to which Fitzgerald embraced, internalized, and came to embody the Jazz Age and Depression Era.This volume explores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with, and keenly observant of, the social, historical, and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Highlighting elements of both high culture and popular culture, these wide-ranging and accessible essays demonstrate the extent to which Fitzgerald embraced, internalized, and came to embody the Jazz Age and Depression Era.The fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald serves as a compelling and incisive chronicle of the Jazz Age and Depression Era. This collection explores the degree to which Fitzgerald was in tune with, and keenly observant of, the social, historical, and cultural contexts of the 1920s and 1930s. Original essays from forty international scholars survey a wide range of critical and biographical scholarship published on Fitzgerald, examining how it has evolved in relation to critical and cultural trends. The essays also reveal the micro-contexts that have particular relevance for Fitzgerald's work  from the literary traditions of naturalism, realism, and high modernism to the emergence of youth culture and prohibition, early twentieth-century fashion, architecture and design, and Hollywood  underscoring the full extent to which Fitzgerald internalized the world around him.List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Preface; Chronology Gretchen Comba; Part I. Life and Works (1896Present): 1. Biography Cathy Barks; 2. Interpreting Fitzgerald's ledger James L. W. West, IlT