1st Edition
Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald
By Jarom McDonald
Copyright 2007
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating the study in the landscape of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American sport culture, Chapter One shows how narratives of attending ballgames, reading or listening to sports media, and being a ‘fan,’ cultivate... Read more
Introduction: Fitzgerald, Sport, and Social Interaction Chapter One: We Are a Very Special Country: The Narrativization of Sport and the Fiction of a Classless Nation Chapter Two: Gridiron Paradise: Princetonian Football, American Class Chapter Three: Idol of the Whole Body of Young Men: Football, Heroes, and the Performance of Social Status Chapter Four: Perfunctory Patriotism: Tom Buchanan, Meyer Wolfshiem, and America’s Game Coda: Of Habitus and Homecoming Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Jarom McDonald is Associate Research Professor and Director of the Office of Digital Humanities at Brigham Young University, US.
