Ashes to ashes : mourning and social difference in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction

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Label

Ashes to ashes : mourning and social difference in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction

Title remainder

mourning and social difference in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Schiff

Creator

• Schiff, Jonathan, 1967-

Subject

• Difference (Psychology) in literature
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Knowledge | Psychology
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 -- Political and social views
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism
• Social classes in literature
• Mourning customs in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Just months before F. Scott Fitzgerald's birth, his two elder sisters died. Though as an adult, Fitzgerald sensed that his sisters' deaths contributed somehow to his career as a writer, previous biographers and critics have not explored at length why he felt this way. Drawing upon archival material, Jonathan Schiff finds that in doting upon their son as a replacement for their daughters, Fitzgerald's parents unsuccessfully warded off their desire to grieve. Fitzgerald, in turn, wavered throughout his life between a desire to serve as familial rescuer and a resistance to that role. Such circumstances encouraged his inclination toward depression and self-destructiveness, though they also fostered his exuberant efforts to transgress normative gender roles and accept the culturally unmanly role of empathizing with others' grief." "Ashes to Ashes will appeal to a wide variety of readers. Those unfamiliar with psychoanalysis will especially appreciate the author's avoidance of jargon, while psychoanalytic experts will be interested in his use of both traditional and contemporary psychoanalytic literature."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.52

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3511.I9

LC item number

Z837 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography