Lost City: Fitzgerald's New York

ISBN-13: 9780415940559 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 132 str.

Lauraleigh O'Meara; L. O'Meara;O'Meara Laurale

Opis

F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains terra incognita - talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under-examined aspect of Fitzgerald's writing. Locating Fitzgerald's narratives in the context in which they were written, the author presents a detailed profile of the city and the urban civilization Fitzgerald knew - and in particular the Edwardian New York of Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Wharton. This work, informed by a skilful combination of literary criticism and cultural theory, provides an enlightening reading of Fitzgerald's novels and stories and the great international city of New York.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 “The Manhattan of the Moment”; Chapter 2 Symbols of New York; Chapter 3 A Day in the History of the City; Chapter 4 Scenes from a “Carnival by the Sea”; Chapter 5 “A Picture of New York Life”; Chapter 6 Good Family, Old Money, Elite Society; Chapter 7 Saying Goodbye to the Road Not Taken; afterword Afterword: Beginnings, Not Endings;

O autorze

Lauraleigh O’Meara