Current Bibliography

To help keep this bibliography up to date, please send notices and citations to jma22@psu.edu or to Jeanne M. Alexander, F. Scott Fitzgerald Edition, Department of English, 430 Burrowes Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802.

Books, pamphlets, editions, and dissertations

Auger, Christine Anne. “Representations of Gatsby: Ninety Years of Retrospective.” Diss. U of South Florida, 2015. DA 3712052.

Benson, Alexandre Nicolas. “Culture as Talk: American Literature and the Ethnography of Utterance, 1880–1945.” Diss. U of California, Berkeley, 2012. DA 3686188. [Chapter 3: “Gatsby’s Tattoo: Gesture-Language in the Jazz Age,” 55–84; examines the relationship between the literary representation of speech and cultural analysis as reflected in The Great Gatsby.]

Cardon, Lauren S. Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2016. [Illustrates how twentieth-century American writers, including Fitzgerald, used contemporary fashion to help develop their characters and to position their social status.]

Davis, Sarah Elizabeth. “A New Model for Reading Adaptation: The Textus, in a Case Study of Adaptation of The Great Gatsby.” Diss. Indiana U of Pennsylvania, 2015. DA 3718622.

O’Nan, Stewart. West of Sunset: A Novel. New York: Penguin, 2015. [Fictionalized story of Fitzgerald’s last years in Hollywood.]

Shapiro, Brendan Laurence. “Closed Minds and Open Systems: Narrative Voice and Institutional Complexity in the Late Modern Novel.” Diss. U of California, Irvine, 2015. DA 3727436. [Chapter 2: “The Ex[t]ensive Simplicity of the Divers: Narrative Voice, Psychological Development, and Intersubjectivity in Tender Is the Night,” 72–144.]

Tisdale, Bethany Dailey. “Creating the Self: Women Artists in Twentieth-Century Fiction.” Diss. U of South Carolina, 2015. DA 3725401. [Chapter 4: “Unbecoming an Artist: Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz and Passive Resistance,” 74–105.]

Wagenblast, Becky Ann. “Gender and Agency in Tender Is the Night, Save Me the Waltz, and The Garden of Eden.” Diss. Washington State U, 2016. DA 3732723. [Examines the evolution of Nicole, Alabama, and Catherine as modern women through their language, emotions, and actions.]

Essays, chapters, and notes

Alexander, Jeanne M. “Current Bibliography.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 292–98.

Antonelli, Sara. “Landscape with a Tragic Hero: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Trimalchio.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 55–75.

Bak, John S. “‘Mending Sails by Candlelight’: A Preface to Clothes for a Summer Hotel” by Tennessee Williams. Ed. John S. Bak. F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 15–28.

Bell, Madison Smartt. “The Gilded Man in Nickel City.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 1–14.

Bell, Robert H. “F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Art of Life.” Sewanee Review 123.2 (2015): 312–24.

Benson, Alex. “Gatsby’s Tattoo: Gesture, Tic, and Description.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 56.4 (2014): 725–59.

Bruyn, Ben de. “The Aristocracy of Objects: Shops, Heirlooms and Circulation Narratives in Waugh, Fitzgerald and Lovecraft.” Neohelicon: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum 42.1 (2015): 85–104.

Cantrell, Owen. “‘It’s Not Polite to Talk about Yourself’: Regional Identity and Erasure in the Midwest from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Mad Men.” Midamerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 41 (2014): 39–61.

Fishkin, Benjamin Hart. “F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Pain of Exclusion.” Fears, Doubts and Joys of Not Belonging. Ed. Benjamin Hart Fishkin, Adaku T. Ankuma, Bill F. Ndi, and Kenneth Wilburn. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research, 2014. 107–24.

_____. “The Power of Memory: Crossroads in Works by Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and August Wilson.” Outward Evil Inward Battle: Human Memory in Literature. Ed. Benjamin Hart Fishkin, Adaku T. Ankumah, Festus Fru Ndeh, and Bill F. Ndi. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research, 2014. 37–52. [Wolfe, “The Lost Boy”; Fitzgerald, “Winter Dreams”; Wilson, “Seven Guitars.”]

Gatzemeyer, Jace. “‘Scott Fitzgerald As I Knew Him’: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Secondary Memoir.” F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 236–59.

Goldleaf, Steven. “Master and Model: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Role in Richard Yates’s ‘Saying Goodbye to Sally.’” F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 13 (2015): 219–35.

González, Jesús Ángel. “Eastern and Western Promises in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom.” Atlantis: Revista De La...