Twenty-First Century Readings of 'Tender is the Night'

by William Blazek, William Blazek (Editor)

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final completed novel, Tender is the Night , published in 1934 but written during the previous decade, is a quintessentially decadent story of Americans abroad in the Jazz Age. In this accessible collection of essays, an impressive congregation of North American and European scholars presents eleven new readings of this widely studied book. The list of noteworthy contributors, including the general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the editors of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review , makes this volume required reading for Fitzgerald scholars and fans.

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2007

Reviews

[Moira]

Introduction
William Blazek and Laura Rattray, p 1
1 ‘Can’t We Put it in Writing?’: Some Short Precursors to Tender Is the Night, Bonnie Shannon McMullen, p 16
2 Tender Is the Night, ‘Jazzmania’, and the Ellingson Matricide, James L. W. West III, p 34
3 Sanatorium Society: The ‘Good’ Place in Tender Is the Night, Linda De Roche, p 50
4 ‘Some Fault in the Plan’: Fitzgerald’s Critique of Psychiatry in Tender Is the Night, William Blazek, p 67
5 An ‘Unblinding of Eyes’: The Narrative Vision of Tender Is the Night, Laura Rattray, p 85
6 Si le soleil ne revenait pas: Swiss Clockwork Gone Mad in Tender Is the Night, Marie-Agnès Gay, p 103
7 ‘A Unity Less Conventional But Not Less Serviceable’: A Narratological History of Tender Is the Night, Kirk Curnutt, p 121
8 American Riviera: Style and Expatriation in Tender Is the Night, Michael K. Glenday, p 143
9 ‘Out Upon the Mongolian Plain’: Fitzgerald’s Racial and Ethnic Cross-Identifying in Tender Is the Night, Chris Messenger, p 160
10 Gender Anxiety: The Unresolved Dialectic of Fitzgerald’s Writing, Faith Pullin, p 177
11 Tender Is the Night and the Calculus of Modern War, James H. Meredith, p 192
12 Reading Fitzgerald Reading Keats, Philip McGowan, p 204