The great Gatsby
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The great Gatsby
Broadview Editions, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256)
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Description
The Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of American fiction. It tells of the mysterious Jay Gatsby's grand effort to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, the rich girl who embodies for him the promise of the American dream. Deeply romantic in its concern with self-making, ideal love, and the power of illusion, it draws on modernist techniques to capture the spirit of the materialistic, morally adrift, post-war era Fitzgerald dubbed "the jazz age." Gatsby's aspirations remain inseparable from the rhythms and possibilities suggested by modern consumer culture, popular song, the movies; his obstacles inseparable from contemporary American anxieties about social mobility, racial mongrelization, and the fate of Western civilization.
This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material about the consumer culture in which Fitzgerald was immersed; about the spirit of the jazz age; and about racial discourse in the 1920s.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Great Gatsby
Appendix A: Fitzgerald's Correspondence about The Great Gatsby (1922-25)
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews
Appendix C: Consumption, Class, and Selfhood: Eight Contemporary Advertisements
Appendix D: The Irreverent Spirit of the Jazz Age
Appendix E: Race and the National Culture, 1920-25
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