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Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is widely seen as the quintessential "great American novel," and the extensive body of criticism on the work bears out its significance in American letters. American Icon traces its reception and its canonical status in American literature, popular culture, and educational experience. It begins by outlining the novel's critical reception from its publication in 1925, to very mixed reviews, through Fitzgerald's death, when it had been virtually forgotten. Next, it examines the posthumous revival of Fitzgerald studies in the 1940s and its intensification by the New Critics in the 1950s, focusing on how and why the novel began to be considered a masterpiece of American literature. It then traces the growth of the "industry" of Gatsby criticism in the ensuing decades, stressing how critics of recent decades have opened up study of the economic, sexual, racial, and historical aspects of the text. The final section discusses the larger-than-life status Gatsby has attained in American education and popular culture, suggesting that it has not only risen from the critical ash heaps into which it was initially discarded, but also that it has become part of the fabric of American culture in a way that few other works have.

American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Fitzgerald, F. Scott --- Geschichte. --- Harbison, John. --- 1920s. --- American Dream. --- American Icon. --- American Literature. --- Cultural Relevance. --- F. Scott Fitzgerald. --- Fitzgerald Studies. --- Gatsby Criticism. --- Jazz Age. --- Literary Criticism. --- Roaring Twenties. --- Robert Beuka. --- The Great Gatsby. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.

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Green lawns, swimming pools, backyard barbecues: welcome to suburbia, the promised land of the American middle class. Or is it? To judge by the depiction of suburbia in prominent works of American fiction and film, the suburbs are also home to dysfunctional families, broken communities, and widespread misery. Clearly, despite the continued popularity of the suburbs as a place to live, the prevailing image of suburbia has changed markedly since the days of 'Leave It to Beaver' and 'Father Knows Best'. In this book, Robert Beuka argues that in order to begin to understand our conflicted relationship toward the suburbs, we need to understand how suburbia has come to be defined through its representation in the popular media and arts. SuburbiaNation looks carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film, and Beuka weaves together such classics as 'It's a Wonderful Life', 'The Stepford Wives', 'The Great Gatsby', 'The Swimmer', 'The Graduate', and 'House Party' to discuss the suburb and its significance in American culture.

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