F. Scott Fitzgerald's short fiction : from ragtime to Swing Time /

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Author / Creator:Adams, Jade Broughton, author.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Description:x, 216 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Series:Modern American literature and the new twentieth century
Modern American literature and the new twentieth century.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11774734
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ISBN:1474424686
9781474424684
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, theatre 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.