Bryan R. Washington (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Washington, Bryan R. “The Daisy Chain: The Great Gatsby and Daisy Miller or the Politics of Privacy.” In The Politics of Exile: Ideology in Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Baldwin, pp. 35-54. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.
[In the following essay, Washington compares Henry James's Daisy Miller and Gatsby, emphasizing the themes of racism, white cultural conservatism, and repressed homosexuality.]
Beginning with the premise that The Great...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2006 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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