02549cam a2200313 i 4500 372021487 TxAuBib 20190412120000.0 190309s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781643130095 28.95 1643130099 28.95 eng rda TxAuBib rda Snyder, Christopher A. Gatsby's Oxford [BOOK] : Scott, Zelda, and the Jazz Age invasion of Britain: 1904-1929 / Christopher A. Snyder. New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2019. xxii, 346 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographic sources and index. The story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's creation of Jay Gatsby-war hero and Oxford man-at the beginning of the Jazz Age, when the City of Dreaming Spires attracted an astounding array of intellectuals, including the Inklings, W.B. Yeats, and T.S. Eliot. Beginning in 1904, when the first American Rhodes Scholars arrived in Oxford, this book chronicles the experiences of Americans in Oxford through the Great War and the years of recovery to 1929, the end of Prohibition and the beginning of the Great Depression. This period is interpreted through the pages of The Great Gatsby, producing a vivid cultural history. It shows just how much Fitzgerald, the quintessential American modernist author, owes a debt to the medieval, the Romantic, and the European historical tradition. Archival material covering the first American Rhodes Scholars who came to Oxford during Trinity Term 1919-when Jay Gatsby claims he studied at Oxford-enables the narrative to illuminate a detailed portrait of what a “historical Gatsby” would have looked like, what he would have experienced at the postwar university, and who he would have encountered around Oxford-an impressive array of artists including Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Winston Churchill, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis. Provided by publisher. 20190412. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) 1896-1940. University of Oxford History 20th century. Rhodes scholarships. Americans England Oxford. Oxford (England) Intellectual life 20th century. Oxford (England) History 20th century.