American Icon - Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby in Critical and Cultural Context

How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture.

List of contents

A Book of the Season Only: Early Reactions to The Great Gatsby
A Green Light: The "Fitzgerald Revival" and the Making of a Masterpiece, 1940-59
The Gatsby Industry: Tracing Patterns and Pushing Boundaries in the Criticism of the Sixties and Seventies
Gatsby, in Theory (and Out): New Paradigms in the Eighties and Nineties
Twenty-First-Century G: The Great Gatsby as Cultural Icon
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Robert Beuka

Summary

How and why Fitzgerald's novel, initially called a failure, has come to be considered a masterwork of American literature and part of the fabric of the culture.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Beuka, Robert (Royalty Account) Beuka
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2011
• EAN: 9781571133717
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-371-7
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 436 g
• Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective; Literary Criticism in Perspect
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Englisch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren