F. Scott Fitzgerald

(noun)

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works epitomize the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself.

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Examples of F. Scott Fitzgerald in the following topics:

  • Literature

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    • This Side of Paradise by F.
    • Scott Fitzgerald portrays the lives and morality of post–World War I youth.
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    • Scott Fitzgerald, a contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, created a portrait of his generation in The Great Gatsby.

  • The Roaring Twenties

    • The term usually refers to American literary notables who lived in Paris at the time, including Ernest Hemingway, F.
    • Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.
    • Because of its popularity in speakeasies and its advancement due to the emergence of more advanced recording devices, Jazz became very popular in a short amount of time, with stars including Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, and Chick Webb.
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    • Scott Fitzgerald, a member of the Lost Generation literary movement, wrote The Great Gatsby, which epitomized Roaring Twenties culture.

  • Literature and the Depression

    • and As I Lay Dying, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn, the first issue of Life magazine, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, F.
    • Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Robert Graves's I, Claudius, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.

  • Ending Punctuation

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    • Scott Fitzgerald was not a fan of exclamation points; in his words: "Cut out all those exclamation points.

  • The Lost Generation

    • As such, the period is also often referred to as the Jazz Age, with F.
    • Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, often described as the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature.
    • The loss of self and the need for self-definition is a main characteristic in American modernists, echoing the mid-19th century focus on the attempt to "build a self," as Gatsby does in Fitzgerald’s work.
    • Cover art for the 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, which author F.
    • Scott Fitgerald used to epitomize the Jazz era and the attitude of post-World War I America.

  • The Culture of the Roaring Twenties

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    • Scott Fitzgerald published some of the most enduring novels of the Jazz Age, including This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Great Gatsby.

  • Culture in the Thirties

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    • Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy, Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, an Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.

  • Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

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    • Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, often described as the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature.
    • In addition to Hemingway and Fitzgerald, this movement of writers and artists also loosely includes John Steinbeck, Sherwood Anderson, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Henry Miller, and T.S.

  • Federalism and the Civil War: The Dred Scott Decision and Nullification

    • John Emerson purchased Scott.
    • Emerson appealed to the Supreme Court of Missouri; she had moved to Massachusetts and transferred advocacy of the case to her brother, John F.
    • Scott then appealed to the U.S.
    • Scott worked in a hotel in St.
    • Dred Scott, the plaintiff in the Dred Scott decision, who sued for his freedom in a Missouri Court.

  • References

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    • F. (1993).
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    • Scott, P., Asoko, H., & Driver, R. (1992).
    • Duit, F.