Collected essays of the First International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, held at Hofstra University in 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Remembering Scott / Budd Schulberg -- Memories of Scott / Frances Kroll Ring -- F. Scott Fitzgerald : a publisher's perspective / Charles Scribner III -- The good ghost of Scott Fitzgerald / George Garrett -- Princeton as modernist's hermeneutics : rereading This side of paradise / Nancy P. Van Arsdale -- Keat's Lamian legacy : romance and the performance of gender in The beautiful and damned / Catherine B. Burroughs -- Fitzgerald's Catholicism revisited : the eucharistic element in The beautiful and damned / Steven Frye -- The great Gatsby-- the text as construct : narrative knots and narrative unfolding / Richard Lehan -- Fitzgerald and Proust : connoisseurs of kisses / André Le Vot -- Redirecting Fitzgerald's "gaze" : masculine perception and cinematic license in The great Gatsby / Scott F. Stoddart -- The rendering of proper names, titles, and allusions in the French translations of The great Gatsby / Michel Viel -- Tourism and modernity in Tender is the night / Dana Brand -- Fitzgerald's use of history in The last tycoon / Robert A. Martin -- Tamed or idealized : Judy Jones's dilemma in "Winter dreams" / Quentin E. Martin -- Inside "Outside the cabinet-maker's" / John Kuehl -- Whose "Babylon revisited" are we teaching? Cowley's fortunate corruption-- and others not so fortunate / Barbara Sylvester -- Art and autobiography in Fitzgerald's "Babylon revisited" / Richard Allan Davison -- Fitzgerald's "Crack-up" essays revisited : fictions of the self, mirrors for a nation / Bruce L. Grenberg -- Going toward the flame : reading allusions in the Esquire stories / Edward J. Gleason -- A dark ill-lighted place : Fitzgerald and Hemingway, Philippe Count of Darkness and Philip counter-espionage agent / H.R. Stoneback. -- Fitzgerald's Twain / Edward Gillin.