The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of-the-art scholarship on the renowned Jazz Age writer, as well as offering an approachable overview of his background, influences, and cultural context. This comprehensive volume features: - A substantial introduction by the editors and extensive primary and secondary bibliographies - A variety of national and transnational perspectives - Essays which consider Fitzgerald's work via key contemporary approaches such as race studies, whiteness studies, queer studies, the digital humanities, literary geography, and ecocriticism - New comparative approaches that consider the author in the context of his contemporaries, including writers of the Harlem Renaissance and modernism - An innovative cluster of short essays by practitioners, reflecting on their work with Fitzgerald materials Offering an indispensable resource for researchers and students alike, this handbook brings together the most exciting scholarship one a true giant of American literature.

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald offers new and engaging ways of thinking about Fitzgerald through a range of critical and contextual lenses, making a positive and ongoing contribution to the development of the field. This handbook compiles new looks at Fitzgeralds work, his legacy, and our reconsideration of him in light of more contemporary social and political questions. * Professor Philip McGowan, Queens University Belfast, UK *
Edited by world-leading scholars in American literature, this handbook provides some vital new research approaches to understanding Fitzgeralds body of work, and it balances those developments with more general overviews of Fitzgeralds background, influences, and cultural contexts. * Professor William Blaek, Liverpool Hope University, UK *

Author Bio

Laura Rattray is Reader in American Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature emerita at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. She has received the Hubbell Medal for service to American literature.