.@sarahchurchwell Gatsby is a fetishist. Fitzgerald was actually symbolist. Potential has a magic the real can never have #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell Gatsby is a fetishist. Fitzgerald was actually symbolist. Potential has a magic the real can never have #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell Fitzgerald always attacked for not achieving his potential at moment of concern over US art remaining unrealised #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell But Gatsby also has the failings of which lit crits accused Fitzgerald – had to show control & aesthetics #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell The Usable Past: history is determinative but Gatsby refuses to believe this and he is uneducatable on this #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell Also no short dresses in 1922, & Charleston doesn’t reach NY until 1925. Daisy & Jordan not really flappers… #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell Like NY drivers Gatsby confuses whether green light means go or stop. NY didn’t confirm until 1week after Gatsby #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell What did green lights mean in 1924? Traffic towers with green reflective lenses bt they werent used consistently #baas2015
@sarahchurchwell What would happen if we tried to restore pleasure & beauty to literary criticism? How can we be more adventurous? #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell is speaking on #Gatsby on the exact 90th anniversary of its publication. And our 60th anniversary #baas2015
.@sarahchurchwell be talking on ‘The Usable Past: Reading Within and Without The Great Gatsby’ in our Eccles Centre plenary #baas2015