Description:
This Broadview edition sets the novel in context by providing readers with a critical introduction and crucial background material.
Brief description: Michael Nowlin is Professor of English at the University of Victoria. He is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Racial Angles and the Business of Literary Greatness (2007) and Literary Ambition and the African American Novel (2019), and editor of Richard Wright in Context (2021) and the Broadview edition of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence (2002).
Review Quotes:
"If The Great Gatsby is, at first glance, an alluring but relatively simple tale, it eventually settles on our consciousness as an almost miraculous dramatization of the essence of the American experience. No major American theme-be it the role of money, art, the quest for social justice, race, or our sense of our national destiny-escapes Fitzgerald's prophetic gaze. This edition, strategically organized and invaluable from start to finish, is the virtually perfect guide to the depth and significance of his masterpiece." - Arnold Rampersad, Stanford University
"Michael Nowlin's edition of The Great Gatsby is educational and elegant. The generous footnotes are detailed yet unobtrusive, and the supplementary materials provide excellent context for what many consider The Great American Novel. The novel, and the world of the novel, are both available to you here, as inseparable as they were while Fitzgerald found inspiration and wrote." - Anne Margaret Daniel, The New School