Gatsby

The Cultural History of the Great American Novel

Bob Batchelor

Contemporary American Literature

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Batchelor, Bob.

Gatsby : the cultural history of the great American novel / Bob Batchelor.

p. cm. — (Contemporary American Literature)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8108-9195-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8108-9196-8 (ebook) 1. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896–1940. Great Gatsby. I. Title.

PS3511.I9G8228 2014

813'.52—dc23

2013024293

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To Lawrence S. Kaplan,

for teaching me how to think like a historian,

and to

Kathy and Kassandra Dylan,

as always, the sunshine in my life!