American Dream Visions: Chaucer's Surprising Influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Deborah Davis Schlacks

This fascinating book breaks new ground by examining the influence of Chaucer's dream visions on American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. In so doing, it raises important questions about periodization, genre, and gender issues. Besides offering much biographical evidence of a Fitzgerald-Chaucer connection, the study uses Jungian theory to present a detailed and persuasive discussion of structural and other features shared by Chaucer's works and several...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820422460
• ISBN13: 9780820422466
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"