Home
:
Book details
:
Book description
Description of
Tender Is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Sentimental Identities
0817318534 pdf In this fascinating study, Chris Messenger posits F. Scott Fitzgerald as a great master of sentiment in modern American fiction. Sentimental forms both attracted and repelled Fitzgerald while defining his deepest impulses as a prose writer. Messenger demonstrates that the sentimental identities, refractions, and influences Fitzgerald explores in Tender Is the Night define key components in his affective life, which evolved into a powerful aesthetic that informed his vocation as a modernist writer. In Tender Is the Night and F. Scott Fitzgeralds Sentimental Identities, Messenger traces the roots of Fitzgeralds writing career to the deaths of his two infant sisters a few months before his own birth. It was their loss, Fitzgerald wrote, that made him a writer. Messenger highlights how the loss of Fitzgeralds siblings powerfully molded his relation to maternal nurturing and sympathy in Read more