Examines the life of early twentieth-century American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, providing an analysis of his writing and features a selection of critical essays regarding his work, a chronology, and a complete bibliography.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald / Paul Rosenfeld -- The moral of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Glenway Wescott -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : the authority of failure / William Troy -- Theme and texture in The great Gatsby / W.J. Harvey -- The life of Gatsby / John W. Aldridge -- Fitzgerald's "Babylon revisited" / Seymour L. Gross -- The beautiful and damned : Fitzgerald's test of youth / Leonard A. Podis -- The crisis of Fitzgerald's Crack-up / Scott Donaldson -- Who killed Dick Diver? : the sexual politics of Tender is the night / Judith Fetterley -- The last tycoon : Fitzgerald as projectionist / Robert Giddings -- F. Scott Fitzgerald's evolving American dream : the "pursuit of happiness" in Gatsby, Tender is the night, and The last tycoon / John F. Callahan -- Princeton as modernist's hermeneutics : rereading This side of paradise / Nancy P. Van Arsdale -- White skin, white mask : passing, posing, and performing in The great Gatsby / Meredith Goldsmith -- History and masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This side of paradise / Pearl James.