F.Scott Fitzgerald'S Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction F. Scott Fitzgerald, “the Cultural World,” and the Lure of the American Scene

   • Michael Nowlin

   Pages 1-18

3. The Racial Make-up of the Entertainer in Two Early Post Stories

   • Michael Nowlin

   Pages 19-34

4. Early Success, Holy Irony, and the Cultural Field of The Beautiful and Damned

   • Michael Nowlin

   Pages 35-58

5. “Trashy Imaginings” and The “Greatness” of The Great Gatsby

   • Michael Nowlin

   Pages 59-84

6. “The Model for the Age”: The Distinction of Tender is the Night

   • Michael Nowlin

   Pages 85-121

7. “A Gentile’s Tragedy”: Bearing the Word about Hollywood in The Love of the Last Tycoon

   • Michael Nowlin

   Pages 123-149

8. Conclusion “Dearly Beloved” and the Black Face of Fitzgerald’s Ambition

   • Michael Nowlin

   Pages 151-155

9. Back Matter

   Pages 157-201

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This book charts Fitzgerald's use of racial stereotypes to encode the dual nature of his literary ambition: his desire to be on the one hand a popular American entertainer, and on the other to make his mark in an elite, international literary field.

• America
• culture
• Hollywood
• irony
• love
• model
• nature
• tragedy

'Nowlin's scholarly and interesting book illuminates the street-of-dreams intersection where Fitzgerald the literary artist confronted his counterpart, the popular fiction writer.' - Scott Donaldson, Biographer of Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald

MICHAEL NOWLIN is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada.

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