F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction : from ragtime to Swing Time /
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 explor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
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| Summary: | 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, theater 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. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 216 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1474424686 9781474424684 |