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Class conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby / Claudia Johnson, book editor.

Contributor(s): Series: Social issues in literaturePublication details: Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2007.Description: 153 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780737738995 (hardcover)
  • 9780737739039 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS3511 .I9 Z4 2008
Contents:
Ch. 1 : Background on F. Scoff Fitzgerald -- The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Scott Donaldson -- Fitzgerald's view of class and the American dream / Marius Bewley. Ch. 2 : The Great Gatsby and class conflict -- The class consumerism of Fitzgerald's life / Malcolm Cowley -- Class snobbery and education / Scott Donaldson -- World War I and class / James H. Meredith -- Upper- and middle-class waste and destruction / Kirk Curnutt -- The universality of class divisions / A.E. Dyson -- Two American dreams in conflict / Brian M. Barbour -- A corruption of character / Michael Mitigate -- A flawed view of greatness / Ronald Berman -- Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle / Rena Sanderson -- Genteel women and flappers / Elizabeth Kaspar Aldrich -- Class and spiritual corruption / John W Bicknell -- Humor in the service of class criticism / Robert Roulston -- The illusion of class / Tom Burnam -- Daisy or Marx? / Ronald J. Gervais. Ch. 3 : Contemporary perspectives on class conflict -- The rich are different / Richard Conniff -- Twenty-first-century flappers / Gloria Goodale -- The criminal class / Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci -- The club and class / Mike Morris.
Summary: Presents essays that examine class conflict and other related issues in "The Great Gatsby," discussing such topics as class snobbery and education, the universality of class divisions, and humor and class criticism.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3511 .I9 Z4 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001005882

Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-149) and index.

Ch. 1 : Background on F. Scoff Fitzgerald -- The life of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Scott Donaldson -- Fitzgerald's view of class and the American dream / Marius Bewley. Ch. 2 : The Great Gatsby and class conflict -- The class consumerism of Fitzgerald's life / Malcolm Cowley -- Class snobbery and education / Scott Donaldson -- World War I and class / James H. Meredith -- Upper- and middle-class waste and destruction / Kirk Curnutt -- The universality of class divisions / A.E. Dyson -- Two American dreams in conflict / Brian M. Barbour -- A corruption of character / Michael Mitigate -- A flawed view of greatness / Ronald Berman -- Daisy, Jordan, and Myrtle / Rena Sanderson -- Genteel women and flappers / Elizabeth Kaspar Aldrich -- Class and spiritual corruption / John W Bicknell -- Humor in the service of class criticism / Robert Roulston -- The illusion of class / Tom Burnam -- Daisy or Marx? / Ronald J. Gervais. Ch. 3 : Contemporary perspectives on class conflict -- The rich are different / Richard Conniff -- Twenty-first-century flappers / Gloria Goodale -- The criminal class / Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci -- The club and class / Mike Morris.

Presents essays that examine class conflict and other related issues in "The Great Gatsby," discussing such topics as class snobbery and education, the universality of class divisions, and humor and class criticism.

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