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Today, more than 70 years after its publication,
The Great Gatsby seems as fresh and pertinent to American
life as it did in the 1920s. The social, cultural, and historical
milieu of the 1920s reflected in its pages is not so very different
from our own. This interdisciplinary collection of commentary and
rich collateral materials will enrich the reader's understanding
of those times and their influence on Fitzgerald's novel. The authors
have included a wide variety of primary documents that capture
the flavor of the era and its notorious and flamboyant
players. Included are newspaper stories, first person accounts,
and congressional testimony from the scandals of the 1920s.
Each section of the casebook contains study questions, topics for
research papers and class discussion, and lists of further reading
for examining the themes and issues raised by the novel.
In addition, this online sourcebook provides
the user access to:
- E-texts of The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise
- The Black Sox Trial of 1921 - Court testimonies, confessions,
images, biographies
- Women's fashions of the 1920s
- 1922 version of The Flapper Dictionary
- Pictorial survey of Prohibition Party Cartoons
- New York Times accounts of the 1929 Stock Market Crash
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre timeline
- Letters from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda's physician at Craig
House, where she was hospitalized for mental illness
- Excerpts from critical reviews of Tender is the Night
- Glossary of cultural references and historical idioms from
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
- Web-based study questions
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