F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)

dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage162en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage176en_US
dc.contributor.authorGross, Andrew S.
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-08T16:56:01Z
dc.date.available2022-12-08T16:56:01Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Great Gatsby became central to American literary history only after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s death in 1940. Many of the author’s contemporaries saw the novel as a celebration of the excesses of the Roaring Twenties. Midcentury scholars, however, began to point out that Gatsby’s materialism is actually idealistic, and that his accumulation of wealth to win back his lost love Daisy is an allegory of the American Dream. The chapter positions itself in this line of criticism by describing Gatsby as a tragic hero whose failure calls into question the myths of self-invention and success. The novel’s elegiac tone, focalized through the narrative perspective of Nick Carraway, places it in a tradition of Anglo-American modernism that addresses social change by mourning the loss of traditional cultural values.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2769
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publishedInBerlinen_US
dc.publisherDeGruyteren_US
dc.relation.doi10.1515/9783110422429
dc.relation.editorMüller, Timo
dc.relation.ispartofHandbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuriesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHandbooks of English and American Studies; 4
dc.rightsL::CC BY-NC-ND 4.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:810en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleF. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)en_US
dc.typeanthologyArticleen_US
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