McDonald, Jarom Lyle

Sports, narrative, and nation in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald/ Jarom Lyle McDonald - New York : Routledge, c2007. - vii,159p. ; 24cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index.

Introduction : Fitzgerald, sport, and social interaction -- "We are a very special country" : the narrativization of sport and the fiction of a classless nation -- Gridiron paradise : Princetonian football, American class -- "Idol of the whole body of young men" : football, heroes, and the performance of social status -- "Perfunctory patriotism" : Tom Buchanan, Meyer Wolfshiem, and "America's game" -- Coda : of habitus and homecoming. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4.

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Sports in literature.
Sports spectators.
Social status in literature.
Social classes in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.

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