F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1945

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection
- Letter(s)
Multigenre/Miscellaneous

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The Crack-Up

(1945) was a volume that drew together previously uncollected material by and about F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). It includes eight articles; many extracts from his notebooks; letters to friends and to his daughter, Frances Scott (“Scottie”) Fitzgerald (1921-86); three letters from older writers about

The Great Gatsby

(1925); two letters from writers of his own generation; and three essays, and two poems, about Fitzgerald. The collection was edited by Fitzgerald’s friend from his undergraduate days at Princeton University, the leading critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), who also provided its “Dedication” in the form of a poem. In the volume’s title article, Fitzgerald described Wilson as the man who “had been my intellectual conscience” for 20 years (79).

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "The Crack-Up". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 November 2012 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34719, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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