Using the ideas of Kristeva and Lacan, this study examines works by four female authors to demonstrate that hysteria and melancholy/melancholia can be viewed as discourse and style when analyzing literary texts. This present study investigates how literature configures and gives voice to hysteria an[...]

Best-known as an icon of the Jazz Age and the unstable wife of F. Scott, Zelda Fitzgerald has inspired studies of her life and work that often perpetrate the myth of the glorious-but-doomed woman. Pike rehabilitates the literary and artistic status of Zelda Fitzgerald by reassessing her work in ligh[...]

"I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we're ruined, Look closer...and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, [...]

Before F. Scott Fitzgerald was a literary darling, before he'd even begun to imagine The Great Gatsby or Benjamin Button, he was a young WWI army lieutenant who fell hard for a spirited Southern belle named Zelda Sayre. Zelda was the embodiment of the Jazz Age and the Roaring Twenties. She was vibra[...]

Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the first American flapper. Their romance transformed a symbol of glamour and spectacle of the Jazz Age. When Zelda cracked up, not long after the stock market [...]

InBeautiful Fools, R. Clifton Spargo gives us a vivid, resplendent, and truly human portrait of the Fitzgeralds, and reveals the heartbreaking patterns and unexpected moments of tenderness that characterize a great romance in decline.[...]

?Rivieran med Fitzgeralds? publicerades ursprungligen i SvD 2012-05-27 De är den amerikanska litteraturhistoriens mest fascinerande par och förgrundsfigurer för den jazzera som de båda skrev om i sina böcker. Under 1920-talet levde Zelda och F. Scott Fitzgerald ett champagneporlande liv på de[...]