Book chapter
The Heat of Modernity: The Great Gatsby as Petrofiction
The Cambridge companion to American literature and the environment, pp.81-92
Cambridge Companions to Literature, Cambridge University Press
2022
DOI: 10.1017/9781108895118.007
Abstract
This chapter rereads The Great Gatsby as a novel deeply concerned with the temptations and dangers of fossil fuel culture. After providing an overview of the contemporaneous Teapot Dome Scandal, Stecopoulos examines Fitzgerald’s subtle linkage of the novel’s more precarious characters with petro-modernity. By analyzing figural accounts of Gatsby as oil detector, Myrtle Wilson as gusher, and George Wilson as depleted energy field, the chapter offers an ecologically oriented account of a classic American novel.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Heat of Modernity: The Great Gatsby as Petrofiction
- Creators
- Harilaos Stecopoulos
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Cambridge companion to American literature and the environment, pp.81-92
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge
- Series
- Cambridge Companions to Literature
- DOI
- 10.1017/9781108895118.007
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2022
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984530553302771
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