J Gerald Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3624934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Gerald Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY J G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald offers both new and familiar readers an authoritative guide to the full scope of Fitzgerald's literary legacy. Gathering the critical insights of leading Fitzgerald specialists, it includes newly commissioned essays on The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald's judgment of his peers, and Fitzgerald's screenwriting and Hollywo…
The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
American Novel to 1870
The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until internal conflict disrupted the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the e…
The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and related tales
Romancing The Shadow
Edgar Allen Poe’s strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works’ subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-cent…
Imagining Paris
Part 1 Place, self and writing toward a poetics of exile. Part 2 The outside and the inside of Stein's Paris. Part 3 City of danger - Hemingway's Paris. Part 4 The secret Paris of Henry Miller. Part 5 Modernism as exile - Fitzgerald, Barnes and the unreal city
Hemingway's Gender Trouble
D URING his last years, Ernest Hemingway worked on two book-length manuscripts recalling expatriate life in France.1 In A Moveable Feast (published posthumously in I964), he produced a self-portrait calculated for popular consumption, narrating the transformation of an obscure journalist into a renowned author. The hard-working, fun-loving hero-alternately Hem or Tatie-displays orthodox heterosexual inclinations; he fantasizes about a very pretty…
Paris in American Literature
American Letters and the Historical Consciousness
Geniuses Together
Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing
The Problematic Fictions of Poe, James, and Hawthorne
The Astonished Traveler
Journal Article The Astonished Traveler: William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters. By J. Gerald Kennedy. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. xiii + 238 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access James L. Penick, Jr. James L. Penick, Jr. Loyola University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 1, June 1983, Pag…
The Astonished Traveler
The Astonished Traveler
The Astonished Traveler
Building Poe Biography
Variety of Attempt
The Limits of Reason
N CANON OF FICTION preponderantly devoted to terror, disease, death, and revivification, Poe's tales of ratiocination provide a revealing counterpoint in their idealization of and sanity. During productive years I84I-44, Poe explored theme of rational analysis in various ways: three adventures of C. Auguste Dupin-The Murders in Rue Morgue (I841), Mystery of Marie Roget (I842-43), and Purloined Letter (I844)-established prototype of modern detecti…
Hemingway's Gender Trouble
D URING his last years, Ernest Hemingway worked on two book-length manuscripts recalling expatriate life in France.1 In A Moveable Feast (published posthumously in I964), he produced a self-portrait calculated for popular consumption, narrating the transformation of an obscure journalist into a renowned author. The hard-working, fun-loving hero-alternately Hem or Tatie-displays orthodox heterosexual inclinations; he fantasizes about a very pretty…
The Limits of Reason
N CANON OF FICTION preponderantly devoted to terror, disease, death, and revivification, Poe's tales of ratiocination provide a revealing counterpoint in their idealization of and sanity. During productive years I84I-44, Poe explored theme of rational analysis in various ways: three adventures of C. Auguste Dupin-The Murders in Rue Morgue (I841), Mystery of Marie Roget (I842-43), and Purloined Letter (I844)-established prototype of modern detecti…
Variety of Attempt
Building Poe Biography
The Astonished Traveler
The Astonished Traveler
The Astonished Traveler
Journal Article The Astonished Traveler: William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters. By J. Gerald Kennedy. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. xiii + 238 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access James L. Penick, Jr. James L. Penick, Jr. Loyola University, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 1, June 1983, Pag…
The Astonished Traveler
The Problematic Fictions of Poe, James, and Hawthorne
American Letters and the Historical Consciousness
Geniuses Together
Poe, Death, and the Life of Writing
Paris in American Literature
Hemingway's Gender Trouble
D URING his last years, Ernest Hemingway worked on two book-length manuscripts recalling expatriate life in France.1 In A Moveable Feast (published posthumously in I964), he produced a self-portrait calculated for popular consumption, narrating the transformation of an obscure journalist into a renowned author. The hard-working, fun-loving hero-alternately Hem or Tatie-displays orthodox heterosexual inclinations; he fantasizes about a very pretty…
Imagining Paris
Part 1 Place, self and writing toward a poetics of exile. Part 2 The outside and the inside of Stein's Paris. Part 3 City of danger - Hemingway's Paris. Part 4 The secret Paris of Henry Miller. Part 5 Modernism as exile - Fitzgerald, Barnes and the unreal city
Romancing The Shadow
Edgar Allen Poe’s strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works’ subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-cent…
The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and related tales
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
American Novel to 1870
The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until internal conflict disrupted the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the e…
The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe
The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald offers both new and familiar readers an authoritative guide to the full scope of Fitzgerald's literary legacy. Gathering the critical insights of leading Fitzgerald specialists, it includes newly commissioned essays on The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald's judgment of his peers, and Fitzgerald's screenwriting and Hollywo…
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