This volume marks one hundred years of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, exploring why the novel continues to resonate in the twenty-first century. Written in 1925, The Great Gatsby remains one of the best-known novels from the United States. Bringing together essays by leading scholars of American literature and culture, the book offers close, contextual and comparative readings that move beyond familiar interpretations of this novel. The essays explore the novel’s engagement with questions of race, class, gender, aspiration, and capitalism, as well as the text’s reception and cinematic adaptations. Intended for students, teachers, and researchers, this collection reaffirms The Great Gatsby’s lasting cultural and critical significance as a timeless literary classic.
The editor: Sanjukta Dasgupta is a critic, editor, poet, short-story writer and translator. Formerly, the Head of the Department of English and Dean of Faculty at the Calcutta University, she has received numerous international fellowships, including a Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship. She has served as the Chairperson of the Commonwealth Writers Prize jury and the Convenor of the English Language Board at Sahitya Akademi. Currently, she is a member of the Jnanpith Award Advisory Committee and a ScoTs Edinburgh Research Affiliate. Her career is distinguished by several major literary and lifetime achievement awards.
Introduction Sanjukta Dasgupta
1. The Great Gatsby and the Lost Narratives Sachidananda Mohanty
2. Around the World in a Century: Internationalising Gatsby and the American Dream Somdatta Mandal
3. Roots and Wings: The ‘Space’ of The Great Gatsby Manju Jaidka
4. Can’t Buy Me Love: A Study of Failed Relationships in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Tania Chakravertty
5. The Great Gatsby in the Twenty-First Century: Memory, Masculinity and the Fictitious Capitalist Avishek Parui
6. Unveiling Spectral Shadows: Studying the Lurking Gothic Elements in The Great Gatsby Madhuchhanda Ray Choudhury
7. ‘We’re all white here’: The Great Gatsby in Conversation with the Harlem Renaissance Richard A. Courage and Amritjit Singh
8. Class Struggle and False Consciousness in Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger H. Kalpana Rao
9. Of the American Dream and a Delusional Love: Ambition and Obsession in The Great Gatsby Amit Shankar Saha
10. The Real, the Surreal and the Dream in Jay Gatsby’s World Neeraj Pizar
11. A Kaleidoscope of Tragic Hues in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Suchandana Bhattacharyya
12. ‘A quality of distortion’: Notes Toward a Gatsby Noir Bennet Schaber
Editor and Contributors