Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale

Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale
Journal issue | 52 | 2018
Research Article | F. Scott Fitzgerald and Willa Cather, via Edith Wharton

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Willa Cather, via Edith Wharton

The New New Woman: Intertextual Echoes

Abstract

In The Beautiful and Damned several intertextual references to Willa Cather’s The Song of the Lark and to Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country occur: this essay explores those regarding the New Woman, the flapper. Harshly criticised by the two women writers, she is more nuanced in Fitzgerald’s second novel.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: April 20, 2018 | Accepted: May 2, 2018 | Published Sept. 28, 2018 | Language: en

Keywords The New New WomanThe Song of the LarkIntertextualityThe Beautiful and DamnedThe Custom of the Country


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