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.
Submitted: April 20, 2018 | Accepted: May 2, 2018 | Published Sept. 28, 2018 | Language: en
Keywords The New New Woman • The Custom of the Country • The Beautiful and Damned • The Song of the Lark • Intertextuality
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