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\n<\/p>\n

\n

[On April 10th<\/sup>,
\n1925<\/a>, F. Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s novel The Great Gatsby<\/i> was published
\nby Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons<\/a>. While I have
\nmy problems with Gatsby<\/i><\/a>, it remains one of our most influential and important
\nnovels, and one that opens up so many AmericanStudies contexts. So this week I\u2019ll
\nhighlight a handful of them, leading up to a weekend post featuring fellow
\nGatsbyStudiers!]<\/p>\n

As I hope
\nthis week\u2019s series has reflected, there are a lot of layers to Fitzgerald\u2019s novel
\nand its AmericanStudies contexts, a lot of reasons why it has endured as fully
\nas it has for the 100 years since its publication. But high on the list has to
\nbe his complex and crucial use of a novelist-narrator, a storytelling voice who
\nis a character in the story but also and perhaps especially a novelist crafting
\nthe text that we\u2019re reading. That\u2019s a device that many of our most interesting
\nnovels have used, and used specifically to consider the American Dream, as I
\nargued in this
\n2011 American Literary Realism<\/i> article<\/a>. It\u2019s available in full at
\nthat link, so in lieu of a final post in this series I\u2019d ask you to check out
\nthat article if you\u2019re interested, and let me know any thoughts if you do
\nplease! <\/span><\/p>\n

Special
\npost this weekend,<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben<\/span><\/p>\n

PS. What do
\nyou think? Takes on Fitzgerald\u2019s novel or its contexts? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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