Fitzgerald Revisited: A Feminist Reexamination of <em>Tender is the Night</em>

<p>This thesis, presented on F. Scott Fitzgerald's fourth novel. <em>Tender is the Night</em>, addresses connections between the text and the author's personal life, the novel's critical heritage and the strengths and weaknesses of the dominant critical paradigm, and the need for a new reading which operates outside of that paradigm. The author seeks to approach the text from a new feminist perspective under the general assumption that previous feminist cnncism shares the same basic critical approaches as the conventional critical paradigm and therefore provides limited new insight into the text. Using a new critical paradigm that disregards previous patriarchal assumptions and emphasizes Fitzgerald's characterization of women, this thesis suggests a different reading of <em>Tender Is the Night</em> in which women play an important, positive role.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of English

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (restricted to Georgia Southern)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Literature and Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2002

Author dc:creator

• Chipman, Lydia Moore

Contributors dc:contributor

• Caren Town
• Linda Rohrer Paige

• ETD
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Tender is the night
• Feminist perspective
• Feminist criticism
• Characterization
• English Language and Literature

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd_legacy/1104

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd_legacy-1712