Chapter 1 Life Childhood and literary apprenticeship(1896-1917) Zelda and early success (1918-1924) Artistic maturity and personal decline(1925-1934) The crack-up and the comeback (1935-1940)
Chapter 2 Cultural context My generation: youth culture and the politics of aging The theater of being: personality and performative identity The marketplace of self-making: personal style and consumerism Flaunting recreations: conspicuous leisure and the culture of indulgence
Chapter 3 Works Composition process Major themes Major characters Major plots and motifs Mode and genre Style and point of view
Chapter 4 Critical reception Contemporary reviewers The Fitzgerald revival Modern Fitzgerald studies
