"RESSENTIMENT" AND THE SOCIAL POETICS OF "THE GREAT GATSY": FITZGERALD READS CATHER

Seguin examines the influence that Willa Cather's "A Lady Lost" had on F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing of "The Great Gatsby." It is Cather's use of affect as a means of charting social space and cultural change that Fitzgerald learned from but also altered for his ow...

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Published inModern fiction studies Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 917 - 940
Main Author Seguin, Robert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press for the Department of English, Purdue University 01.12.2000
Johns Hopkins University Press
Subjects
Aesthetics
American literature
Bourgeois
Cather, Willa (1873-1947)
Conspicuous consumption
Cultural change
Desire
Fitzgerald, F Scott (1896-1940)
Literary criticism
Love
Narratives
Narrators
Novels
Peasant class
Poetics
Ressentiment
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Summary:Seguin examines the influence that Willa Cather's "A Lady Lost" had on F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing of "The Great Gatsby." It is Cather's use of affect as a means of charting social space and cultural change that Fitzgerald learned from but also altered for his own purposes.
ISSN:0026-7724
1080-658X