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Fitzgerald as Studied

• INFLUENCES AND READING
• CONTEMPORARY BEST-SELLERS AND AWARD-WINNERS
• SOCIAL REALISM
• THE MATERIAL OF AMERICAN FICTION
• MODERNISM
• FITZGERALD AND HEMINGWAY
• FITZGERALD AND WOLFE
• HIS CONTEMPORARIES ON FITZGERALD
• LATER WRITERS ON FITZGERALD
• NOTES

INFLUENCES AND READING

The influence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writing on other authors is misunderstood. Fitzgerald wrote like nobody else. Nobody else wrote like Fitzgerald. Many writers have acknowledged their admiration of his style, but no writer has successfully imitated him. Imitations of Fitzgerald turn into parodies because his tone and his emotional investment in his material are lacking in imitators. In 1949...

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1. Introduction
2. About F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Fitzgerald at Work
4. Fitzgerald’s Eras
5. Fitzgerald’s Works
6. Fitzgerald on Fitzgerald and on Writing
7. Fitzgerald as Studied
8. Study Questions
9. Selected Bibliographical, Biographical, and Critical Studies (Includes Works on Zelda Fitzgerald)
10. Copyright

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald