Fitzgerald's mentors :: Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy /

Fitzgerald's Mentors is a fresh and compelling study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's intellectual friendship with Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy. Fitzgerald was shaped through his engagements with key literary and artistic figures in the 1920s. This book is about their influence-...

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Main Author: Berman, Ronald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2012.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Fitzgerald's Mentors is a fresh and compelling study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's intellectual friendship with Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy. Fitzgerald was shaped through his engagements with key literary and artistic figures in the 1920s. This book is about their influence- and also about the ways that Fitzgerald defended his own ideas about writing. Influence was always secondary to independence. Fitzgerald's education began at Princeton with Edmund Wilson. There Wilson imparted to Fitzgerald many ideas a.
Physical Description:1 online resource (119 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780817386382
0817386386
9780817356934
0817356932

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