This volume of criticism features essays that provide the reader with cultural, historical, comparative, and critical contexts for understanding Gatsby.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On The Great Gatsby.
2: Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: Gatsby in Context.
5: The Critical Reception of The Great Gatsby.
6: “The Self-Same Song that Found a Path”: Keats and The Great Gatsby.
7: Paradox, Ambiguity, and the Challenge to Judgment in The Great Gatsby and Daisy Miller.
8: Babbled Slander Where the Paler Shades Dwell: Reading Race in The Great Gatsby and Passing.
Critical Overviews.
9: Introduction to The Great Gatsby.
10: The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald's Opulent Synthesis (1925).
11: The Craft of Revision: The Great Gatsby.
Critical Readings.
12: “A World Complete In Itself”: Gatsby's Elegiac Narration.
13: “A Fragment of Lost Words”: Narrative Ellipses in The Great Gatsby.
