F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Beautiful and Damned: New Critical Essays

Book Overview

F. Scott Fitzgerald?s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned , has frequently been dismissed as an outlier and curiosity in his oeuvre, a transitional work from the coming-of-age plot of This Side of Paradise to the masterful critique of American aspiration in The Great Gatsby . The Beautiful and Damned belongs to a genre that is widely misunderstood, the ?bright young things? novel in which spoiled and wealthy characters succumb to decay because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807178578
• ISBN13: 9780807178577
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"