Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1: A Book of the Season Only: Early Reactions to The Great Gatsby 1
5. 2: A Green Light: The “Fitzgerald Revival” and the Making of a Masterpiece, 1940–59 22
6. 3: The Gatsby Industry: Tracing Patterns and Pushing Boundaries in the Criticism of the Sixties and Seventies 57
7. 4: Gatsby, in Theory (and Out): New Paradigms in the Eighties and Nineties 93
8. 5: Twenty-First-Century G: The Great Gatsby as Cultural Icon 118
9. Works Cited 143
10. Index 157