Lauraleigh O'Meara

Lost City

Fitzgerald's New York

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Produktbeschreibung

F. Scott Fitzgerald left behind a substantial body of work on New York, yet his city remains in our time terra incognita, talked about but rarely well met. Lost City takes on this important and under-examined, indeed misunderstood and misrepresented, aspect of Fitzgerald's writing. The author shows that Fitzgerald's geography amounts to more than the Plaza Hotel and a wasteland. His writing depicts a variety of districts and neighborhoods. His is not the New York of the Roaring Twenties. Locating Fitzgerald's

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 159mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9780415940559
• ISBN-10: 0415940559
• Artikelnr.: 21550596

Autorenporträt

Lauraleigh O¿Meara

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 "The Manhattan of the Moment"
Chapter 2 Symbols of New York
Chapter 3 A Day in the History of the City
Chapter 4 Scenes from a "Carnival by the Sea"
Chapter 5 "A Picture of New York Life"
Chapter 6 Good Family, Old Money, Elite Society
Chapter 7 Saying Goodbye to the Road Not Taken
afterword Afterword: Beginnings, Not Endings