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  title info:
    title: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The beautiful and damned"
    sub title: new critical essays
  name:
    name part: Blazek, William
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Ullrich, David W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Curnutt, Kirk
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: lau
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, has in the century since its publication in 1922 been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre. At best, it has been viewed as a transitional work, a stepping-stone from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to The Great Gatsby's masterful critique of American aspiration. To date, there has never been a scholarly collection devoted specifically to it, even though at 449 pages it is Fitzgerald's longest work with the broadest scope. The Beautiful and Damned belongs to a genre that is widely misunderstood, the "bright young things" novel in which spoiled and wealthy characters succumb to decay because of their privilege and lack of purpose. Set between 1913 and 1922, the novel touches on many of the decisive issues that mark the passage from the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era into the Jazz Age, including conspicuous consumption, income inequality, metropolitan life versus the emergence of the suburbs, yellow journalism, the Great War, antebellum nostalgia, the rise of the movie industry, automobile travel, Wall Street stock scams and America's relentless culture of snake-oil salesmanship, immigration and xenophobia and the fixation with youth and aging. Published to coincide with the novel's centennial in 2022, this collection sets out to dissect The Beautiful and Damned for its insights more than its faults. A lineup of prominent Fitzgerald scholars draw from a variety of critical approaches, analyzing both the major themes and unappreciated issues through history, biography, literary influence and development, gender studies, and narratology. While not apologizing for the novel's faults, the essays insist that The Beautiful and Damned has much more to say about its milieu than previously recognized. This collection provides readers a guide for understanding Fitzgerald's aims while establishing the critical agenda for future studies. The essays demonstrate the richness of ideas tha…
  note: edited by William Blazek, David W. Ullrich & Kirk Curnutt.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-282) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
      name part: 1896-1940
  classification: PS3511.I9 B434 2023
  classification: 813/.52
  identifier: 9780807178577
  identifier: 0807178578
  identifier: 9780807177730
  identifier: 0807177733
  identifier: 9780807178614
  identifier: 9780807178607
  identifier: 2022009107
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220224
    record change date: 20221214203446.4
    record identifier: in00004631791