American Dream Visions: Chaucer's Surprising Influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author / Editor
- Schlacks, Deborah Davis.
American Dream Visions: Chaucer's Surprising Influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Published
- New York: Peter Lang, 1994.
- Physical Description
- x, 234 pp.
- Series
- Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, no. 5.
- Description
- Argues from internal and external evidence that Fitzgerald's works were strongly influenced by Chaucer's dream poems. In particular, Chaucerian themes, characterizations of females, and dream structures occur in Fitzgerald's early works, especially "The Great Gatsby," as do parallel concerns with creativity and the role of the artist. The influence is less pervasive in later works by Fitzgerald, but his concern with the artist-protagonist continues.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.