This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating the study in the landscape of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American sport culture, Chapter One shows how narratives of attending ballgames, reading or listening to sports media, and being a 'fan, ' cultivate communities of spectatorship.

Adopting this same framework, the next three chapters explore how Fitzgerald's literary representations of sport culture express the complexities of...