F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains in our time terra incognita, talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under-examined, indeed misunderstood and misrepresented, aspect of Fitzgerald's writing. The author shows that Fitzgerald's geography amounts to more than the Plaza Hotel and a wasteland. His writing depicts a variety of districts and neighborhoods. His is not the New York of the Roaring Twenties. Locating Fitzgerald's
Autorentext
Lauraleigh O'Meara
Zusammenfassung
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Inhalt
Chapter 1 "The Manhattan of the Moment"; Chapter 2 Symbols of New York; Chapter 3 A Day in the History of the City; Chapter 4 Scenes from a "Carnival by the Sea"; Chapter 5 "A Picture of New York Life"; Chapter 6 Good Family, Old Money, Elite Society; Chapter 7 Saying Goodbye to the Road Not Taken; afterword Afterword: Beginnings, Not Endings;