弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德

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Childhood and literary apprenticeship (1896-1917)As with many writers, the first circumstance that Fitzgerald had to overcome washis immediate family. As the New Yorkerpolitely put it in 1926, "His success was agreat surprise to the home circle... [for] the Fitzgeralds were not what is knownas literary people.''4 Although Fitzgerald claimed that his father co-authoredan unpublished novel, Edward Fitzgerald (1853-1931) served him mainly asa symbol of failure. When his only son was born on September 24, 1896, thegenteel furniture manufacturer presided over an unprofitable wicker works inSt Paul, Minnesota. The firm's closing two years later, coupled with Edward'ssubsequent undistinguished career as a wholesale grocery salesman, ledFitzgerald to dismiss his father alternately as a "moron" and, more generously,as representative of that "good heart that came from another America" -that is, the Victorian age that modernity had rendered obsolete.5 The defin-ing event of Fitzgerald's childhood was Edward's 1908 firing from Procter andGamble, for whom the family had relocated to Buffalo and Syracuse, New York,during his infancy. Memories of that humiliation would resurface whenever theson doubted his own merits. "He had lost his essential drive, his immaculate-ness of purpose," Fitzgerald reflected. "He was a failure the rest of his days" (InHis Own Time 297). Defeatism was not merely a personal flaw; it was indicativeof his father's "tired old stock," which had "very little left of vitality and mentalenergy" (Apprentice Fiction 178). Edward's matrilineal lineage could be tracedto a founding pair of Maryland families, the Scotts and the Keys, which includedFitzgerald's namesake, Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Ban-ner." Yet the Civil War superannuated the legacy of Southern nobility in whichEdward was reared, leading Fitzgerald to ascribe his mediocrity to historicalupheaval. "I wonder how deep the Civil War was in [him]," he wrote in 1940,recalling tales of Edward's childhood days ferrying Confederate spies acrossthe Potomac. "What a sense of honor and duty... How lost [his generation]seemed in the changing world.., struggling to keep their children in the hautebourgeoisie when their like were sinking into obscur[ity] .

前言

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书籍目录

PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1 Life　Childhood and literary apprenticeship(1896-1917)　Zelda and early success (1918-1924)　Artistic maturity and personal decline(1925-1934)　The crack-up and the comeback (1935-1940)Chapter 2 Cultural context　My generation: youth culture and the politics of aging　The theater of being: personality and performative identity　The marketplace of self-making: personal style and consumerism　Flaunting recreations: conspicuous leisure and the culture of indulgenceChapter 3 Works　Composition process　Major themes　Major characters　Major plots and motifs　Mode and genre　Style and point of viewChapter 4 Critical reception　Contemporary reviewers　The Fitzgerald revival　Modern Fitzgerald studiesNotesGuide to further readingIndex

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《弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德》：剑桥文学名家研习系列。本系列旨在为学生引荐英美文学名家，内容亲和，语言生动，对有意提高西方文学素养的读者很有吸引力。·学生、教师、专题主讲者均适用；·简明扼要、信息丰富；·配有进一步研究的书目。

作者简介

《弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德》分析了菲茨杰拉德全部的小说作品，包括最受欢迎的《了不起的盖茨比》和《夜色温柔》，深入探讨了菲茨杰拉德创作中的典型主题、主要情节、独特风格，以及令人难忘的小说人物，让读者真切体味菲茨杰拉德作品的魅力。作为20世纪最出色的文学家之一，菲茨杰拉德传奇的生平和他的艺术一样令人倾倒。

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