F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Fiction

Jade Broughton Adams is an Independent Scholar, specialising in American fiction and popular culture of the 1920s and 1930s. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Oxford, and completed a PhD at the University of Leicester. Her doctoral research focused on the use of parody in the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• Table of FiguresList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgements Introduction Not ‘a Sincere and Yet Radiant World’ but ‘Trashy Imaginings’: Representations of Popular Culture in Fitzgerald’s Short Fiction Chapter 1‘Dancing Modern Suggestive Dances that are Simply Savagery’:Fitzgerald and Ragtime DanceChapter 2The ‘Chocolate Arabesques’ of Josephine Baker: Fitzgerald and Jazz DanceChapter 3‘Satyre upon a Saxaphone’:Fitzgerald and MusicChapter 4‘The One about Sitting on His Top Hat and Climbing up His Shirt Front’:Fitzgerald and Musical TheatreChapter 5‘A More Glittering, a Grosser Power’:Fitzgerald and FilmConclusion‘All my Stories are Conceived Like Novels’Appendix AFitzgerald’s Short Story CollectionsBibliographyIndex

Jade Broughton Adams' book opens new and important territory in F. Scott Fitzgerald studies. This is an investigation of Fitzgerald's understanding of the popular culture of his time. Adams identifies the influences of music, dance, theatre, and film on his short fiction, still the most neglected part of his oeuvre. The writing in this book is sprightly and the research impeccable.