TY - BOOK AU - McDonald,Jarom Lyle TI - Sports, narrative, and nation in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald SN - 0415981336 U1 - 813.52 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Sports in literature KW - Sports spectators KW - Social status in literature KW - Social classes in literature KW - National characteristics, American, in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index; Introduction : Fitzgerald, sport, and social interaction --; Ch. 1; "We are a very special country" : the narrativization of sport and the fiction of a classless nation --; Ch. 2; Gridiron paradise : Princetonian football, American class --; Ch. 3; "Idol of the whole body of young men" : football, heroes, and the performance of social status --; Ch. 4; "Perfunctory patriotism" : Tom Buchanan, Meyer Wolfshiem, and "America's game" --; Coda : of habitus and homecoming ER -