"F. Scott Fitzgerald's "the Beautiful and Damned"

William Blazek is professor of American literature and modern culture at Liverpool Hope University and serves as vice president of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. He edited the 2022 Oxford World's Classics edition of The Beautiful and Damned and is a founding coeditor of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. David W. Ullrich is professor of English at Birmingham-Southern College and an editor at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. His recent publications examine Zelda Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, and John Cheever. Kirk Curnutt is professor of English at Troy University, managing editor of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, and executive director of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society. He is the author or editor of numerous books on American literature, including The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"William Blazek, David W. Ullrich, and Kirk Curnutt do not set as a purpose of their volume on The Beautiful and Damned to propose that the novel is flawless or that it merits a ranking alongside The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. Instead, they demonstrate through their introduction and the eleven rigorous essays in the collection that The Beautiful and Damned is indeed worthy of study and that it is important to reread what is in fact a very rich novel 'for its merits rather than its flaws.' As we celebrate the one hundred year anniversary of the publication of The Beautiful and Damned, I can think of no better way of marking the occasion than the appearance of this excellent essay collection that provides abundant evidence that Fitzgerald's fascinating second novel does indeed merit rereading, especially with this volume as a reader's companion."--Bryant Mangum, editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context