F. Scott Fitzgerald (Modern Fiction)

F. Scott Fitzgerald belonged to a generation of American writers who made a crucial contribution to the development of modern literary culture in English. This study charts the changes in Fitzgerald's literary reputation, and examines the factors which have led to his establishment as one of the classic 20th-century American writers. "Modern Fiction" is a series of introductory studies of the chief writers and movements in the history of 20th-century fiction in English. Each volume is written by an expert in the field, and offers a fresh reading of the writer's work in the light of recent scholarship and criticism, but always with the needs of the student and general reader in mind . It provides biographical information, consideration of the writer's relationship to the social, intellectual and cultural life of their times, and detailed readings of selected texts. The series includes short-story writers as well as novelists, contemporary, as well as the classic moderns and their successors, and Commonwealth, as well as British and American writers. There are volumes on themes and groups, as well as on individual figures. Coming at a time when modern fiction is the subject of discussion, which is intense but often bewilderingly specialized, "Modern Fiction" offers up-to-date maps of a crowded territory, providing the novel-reader and student with the informative and helpful introductions that are increasingly needed.