Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway

The Lost Generation was forced to develop their own principles regarding gender identity in an environment of ever-shifting cultural norms, which called into question all of their predetermined ideas on femininity, masculinity, and the ways in which members of the opposite sex should interact with one another. Although much of their writing is set amid and seems to embrace the evolving social culture of the early twentieth-century, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway largely criticize the gender revolution of the 1920s and blame evolving gender roles for the collapse of their generation. Nevertheless, I argue that Fitzgerald’s and Hemingway’s cultural critique ironically contributed to the growing popularity of the same transgressive gender roles that they sought to criticize.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English Literature

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Killeen, Mary

Contributors dc:contributor

• Christopher Schedler
• Laila Abdalla
• Christine Sutphin

• Fitzgerald
• Hemingway
• 1920s
• feminism
• gender
• new historicism
• American Literature
• Arts and Humanities

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/669

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.cwu.edu:etd-1659