Reserves: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

This is a list of books on reserve at the circulation desk on the top floor of Brown Library. Each reference is given in MLA format.

There are two types of books on reserve:

1. Books about the author (i.e., biography or literary criticism)

2. Anthologies - These are collections of critical writings about the author. The writings, by various researchers and scholars, are usually reprints of articles published originally in journals. An anthology will have one or more editors. A writing from an anthology is not cited the same way as a book.

Books about the Author

Baughman, Judith S. and Matthew J. Bruccoli. Literary Masters: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2000.

Berman, Ronald. The Great Gatsby and Fitzgerald’s World of Ideas. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1997.

Lathbury, Roger. Literary Masterpieces: The Great Gatsby. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2000.

Lehan, Richard. The Great Gatsby: The Limits of Wonder. Boston: Twayne, 1990.

Long, Richard Emmet. The Achieving of The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920-1925. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1979.

Mizener, Arthur. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1963.

Parkinson, Kathleen. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. London: Penguin, 1987.

Anthologies
A citation to an anthology contains two parts:

1. The first part is the reference to the particular article, essay or chapter that you are using. It includes first the author and then the title.

2. The second part of the citation will be the reference to the book that the article appeared in. It includes the title of the book, the editor, the publication information, date and pages. The references below are not complete. They only show the book part of a citation. For more information, consult page 382 of A Writer's Reference.

Class Conflict in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Ed. Claudia Johnson. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2008.

Critical Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Ed. Scott Donaldson. Boston: Hall, 1984.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Ed. Nicolas Tredell. New York: Columbia UP, 1997.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1986.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Literary Reference. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Carroll, 2002.

Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: The Novel, the Critics, the Background. Ed. Henry Dan Piper. New York: Scribner’s, 1970.

Major Literary Characters: Gatsby. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1991.

New Essays on The Great Gatsby. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985.

Twentieth Century Interpretations of  The Great Gatsby: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Ernest H. Lockridge. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1968.

Bibliography of Articles
Here is a selected list of articles that can be found either in Brown Library or through our electronic databases.

Cartwright, Kent. “Nick Carraway as an Unreliable Narrator.” Papers on Language and Literature 20(1984): 218-32. (paper)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. “The Crack-Up: a Desolately Frank Document From One For Whom The Salt Of Life Has Lost Its Savor.” Esquire Feb. 1982: 74-80. (microfilm)

Korenman, Joan S. “‘Only Her Hairdresser…’: Another Look at Daisy Buchanan.” American Literature 46(1975): 574-78. (microfilm and JSTOR)

Lukens, Margaret. “Gatsby as a Drowned Sailor.” English Journal 76(1987): 44-46. (microfiche)

Parr, Susan Resneck. “Individual Responsibility in The Great Gatsby.” Virginia Quarterly Review 57(1981): 662-80.(paper)

Person, Leland S. “‘Herstory’ and Daisy Buchanan.” American Literature 50(1978): 250-257. (microfilm and JSTOR)

Settle, Glenn. “Fitzgerald’s Daisy: The Siren Voice.” American Literature 57(1985): 115-24. (microfiche and JSTOR)

Speer, Roderick S. “The Great Gatsby’s ‘Romance of the Motoring’ and ‘The Cruise of the Rolling Junk.’ Modern Fiction Studies 20(1974-1975): 540-43. (paper)

Tanner, Bernard. "The Gospel of Gatsby." English Journal 54(1965): 467-74. (microfilm)

To find more articles and books not listed here, please visit the Library Handbook for English 112.