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...Francis E. Skipp The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald . Edited by Turnbull Andrew . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1963 . Pp. xviii , 615 . $10.00 . The Fitzgerald Reader . Edited by Mizener Arthur . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1963 . Pp. xxvii , 509...

...Benjamin T. Spencer Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Fitzgerald and the American Ambivalence Benjamin T. Spencer I That F. Scott Fitzgerald s fiction bears an American stamp to a unique degree has been frequently asserted and rarely denied. In choice of character and scene...

...Francis E. Skipp F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocoön . By Sklar Robert . New York : Oxford University Press , 1967 . Pp. 376 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 565 and the rise of an Hegelian aesthetic theory (neither of which was notably...

...Theodore L. Gross Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Hero in Retrospect Theodore L. Gross The revival of interest in F. Scott Fitzgerald s fiction seems to de­ velop from the author s concentration on lost idealism, on the death of uniqueness, as much...

...Robert A. Ferguson Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 The Grotesque in the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald Robert A. Ferguson Twentieth-century novelists often have relied upon the concept of the grotesque in expressing the nature of modem man. F. Scott Fitzgerald distinguishes...

...Albert J. Lubell Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 THE FITZGERALD REVIVAL Albert J. Lubell F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, if for no other reason than that his fame was for a number of years under an almost total eclipse, deserved a revival. A mere glance at Fitzgerald s case reveals its...

...Lewis Leary The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald . By Mizener Arthur . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1951 . Pp. 262 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 592 The South Atlantic Quarterly of such a book as Boswell s London...

...H. K. Russell University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. No. 12, Edith Wharton . By Auchincloss Louis . No. 13, Herman Melville . By Howard Leon . No. 14, The American Short Story . By Ross Danforth . No. 15, F. Scott Fitzgerald . By Shain...

...John Abbot Clark Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ON FIRST LOOKING INTO BENSON S FITZGERALD JOHN ABBOT CLARK WHEN THE ACADEMIC recuperation period is cut to one month instead of three, as was the case recently in a number of our institutions of higher learning, there are times...

...Samuel Kliger First Follow Nature: Primitivism in English Poetry, 1725-1750 . By Fitzgerald Margaret M. . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1947 . Pp. 254 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 323 stages of the hierarchy of knowing and being...

...Paull F. Baum The Life of Edward FitzGerald Translator of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam . By Terhune Alfred McKinley . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1947 . Pp. xi , 373 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 1x9 jester merely because he...

...Morris Dickstein Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Morris Dickstein Fitzgerald s Second Act As many cultural historians have observed, success rather than Christianity has always served as the American gospel. But in busi­ ness novels like William Dean Howells s The Rise of Silas...

...Robert Roulston Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Whistling Dixie in Encino: The Last Tycoon and F. Scott Fitzgerald s Two Souths Robert Roulston Had he lived to complete The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, with his penchant for extensive revising, might have eliminated from...

...Merle M. Bevington Fitzgerald’s Salaman and Absal: A Study . By Arberry A. J. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1957 . Pp. vii , 206 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 535 thought and cultural folkways. His thoughtful volume deserves...

...Oscar Penn Fitzgerald Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 John M. Daniel and Some of His Contemporaries By Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, LL. D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South The entrance of John M. Daniel into the editorial ranks was like turning an electric eel...

...Robert Roulston Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Dick Diver s Plunge into the Roman Void: The Setting of Tender Is the Night Robert Roulston Even its detractors probably would concede that no other novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald reaches as far into the thoughts and motives of its...

... and breadth of the Sartrian analysis. DUKE UNIVERSITY THOMAS CORDLE The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Andrew Turnbull. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1963. Pp. xviii, 615. $10.00. The Fitzgerald Reader. Edited by Arthur Mizener. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1963. Pp. xxvii, 509. $7.50...

.... Scott Fitzgerald: The Last Laocodn. By Robert Sklar. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Pp. 376. $8.50. Robert Sklar has given us what none of the extensive work done in recent years on F. Scott Fitzgerald has even intended to supply: a com­ prehensive study of Fitzgerald s mind and art...

... of latter-day Fitzgerald addicts. It is a winsome reconstruction, based on records and letters, on testimony of men and women who knew Fitzgerald well, and also, inevitably, on autobiographical evidence culled from his writings. The story is fascinating, for Fitzgerald always had and still has the faculty...

... ings. Its old dreams bankrupt and lost, moreover, New York/America frustrated, murdered, or perverted those who nonetheless undertook to dream anew in such novels as The Age ofInnocence (1920), by Edith Wharton, The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), by Nathanael...