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Sports, narrative, and nation in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald  Cover Image Book Book

Sports, narrative, and nation in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  • ISBN: 9780415803038 (pbk)
  • ISBN: 0415803039 (pbk)
  • ISBN: 0415981336 (Hardcover)
  • ISBN: 9780415981330 (Hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    vii, 159 p. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : London : Routledge, c2007.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction : Fitzgerald, sport, and social interaction -- Ch. 1. "We are a very special country" : the narrativization of sport and the fiction of a classless nation -- Ch. 2. Gridiron paradise : Princetonian football, American class -- Ch. 3. "Idol of the whole body of young men" : football, heroes, and the performance of social status -- Ch. 4. "Perfunctory patriotism" : Tom Buchanan, Meyer Wolfshiem, and "America's game" -- Coda : of habitus and homecoming.
Subject: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) -- 1896-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) -- 1896-1940 -- Political and social views
Sports in literature
Sports spectators
Social status in literature
Social classes in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Lansdowne Library PS 3511 I9 Z6855 2007 (Text) 26040002846315 Main Collection Volume hold Available -

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