Gatsby Bibliography
 
This bibliography was prepared in anticipation of conducting research dealing with Fitzgerald's treatment of love in his work; his view of love relationships in his life and in fiction; and the way his individual characters percieve, act and are affected by love.

Biographical sources: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald

Bruccoli, Matthew J. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Columbia: U. of South Carolina P., 2002.

Bruccoli, Matthew J. and Margaret M. Duggan, eds. Correspndance of F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Random House, 1980.

Bryer, Jackson R., and Cathy W. Barks, eds. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and
Zelda Fitzgerald
. New York: St. Martin's P, 2002.

Donaldson, Scott. Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983.

Critical sources: Fitzgerald on Love - In Life, Fiction and Short Stories

Cowley, Malcolm. "FSF: The Romance of Money." Western Review 17 (Summer 1953), 245-255.

Coyle, John. "Meaulnes, Gatsby and the Possibilities of Romance." Essays in Poetics: The Journal of the
British Neo-Formalist School
12:1 (1987): 15-40.

Harding, Brian. "'Made for - or against - the Trade': The Radicalism of Fitzgerald's Saturday Evening
Post Love Stories." Scott Fitzgerald: The Promises of Life. Ed. A. Robert Lee. London: St. Martin's,
1989 113-130.

Hunt, Jan and Suarez, John M. "The Evasion of Adult Love in Fitzgerald's Fiction." The Centennial
Review
17 (1973): 152-69.

Kennedy, J. Gerald, and Jackson R. Bryer, eds. French Connections: Hemingway and Fitzgerald Abroad.
New York: St. Martin's P, 1998.

Kuehl, John. "SF: Romantic and Realist." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 1 (Autumn 1959), 412-426

Lehan, Richard D. "FSF and Romantic Destiny." Twentieth Century Literature 26 (Summer 1980), 137-156

Lewis, Roger. "Money, Love, and Aspiration in The Great Gatsby." New Essays on 'The Great Gatsby.'
Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985 41-57.

Nilsen, Helge Normann. "A Failure To Love: A Note on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Rich Boy.'"
International Fiction Review 14:1 (1987): 40-43.

Petry, Alice Hall. "Love Story: Mock Courtship in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Jelly-Bean.'" Arizona
Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory
39:3 (1983): 251-260.

Probert, K.G. "Nick Carraway and the Romance of Art." English Studies in Canada 10:2 (1984):
188-208.

Richards, Robert and Chris Richards. "Feeling in The Great Gatsby." Western Humanities Review 21 (1967): 257-65.

Speer, R. S. "The Great Gatsby's 'Romance of Motoring' and 'The Cruise of the Rolling Junk." Modern
Fiction Studies
20 (1974-75): 540-43.

Vasquez, Mary S. "Fitzgerald and the Redemptive Power of Love." Letras Femeninas 14:1-2 (1988): 10-21.

Critical sources: Character Studies - Jay Gatsby

Mitchell, Giles. "The Great Narcissist: A Study of Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby." The American Journal of
Psychoanalysis
51:4 (1991): 387-96.

Morgan, Elizabeth. "Gatsby in the Garden: Courtly Love and Irony." College Literature 11:2 (1984): 163-177.

Ornstein, Robert. "Gatsby Is a Classic Romantic." Readings on 'The Great Gatsby.' Ed. Katie de Koster.
San Diego, CA: Greenhaven, 1998 33-40.

Shroeder, John. "'Some Unfortunate Idyllic Love Affair': The Legends of Taji and Jay Gatsby." Books at Brown 22 (1968): 143-153.

Critical sources: Character Studies - Women in Fitzgerald

Fryer, Sarah Beebe. Fitzgerald's New Women: Harbingers of Change. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research P,
1988.

Moreland, Kim. "Courtly Love in America: Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald Present the Lady
and the Vamp." Selected Papers on Medievalism, I & II: 1986 and 1987. Ed. Janet E. Goebel
and Rebecca Cochran. Indiana: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1988 I: 19-32.

Person, Leland S., Jr. "'Herstory' and Daisy Buchanan." American Literature 50 (1978): 250-257.

Settle, Glenn. "Fitzgerald's Daisy: The Siren Voice." American Literature 57 (1985): 11-24.

Shrubb, E. P. "Girls and the Money: Reflections on The Great Gatsby." Sydney Studies in English
11 (1985-1986): 95-102.

- Compiled by Caroline Markel, Case Western Reserve University
 

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