The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald

Best-known as an icon of the Jazz Age and the unstable wife of F. Scott, Zelda Fitzgerald has inspired studies of her life and work that often perpetrate the myth of the glorious-but-doomed woman. Pike rehabilitates the literary and artistic status of Zelda Fitzgerald by reassessing her work in light of previously unpublished sources. Fitzgerald’s creative output was astonishing, considering the conditions under which she lived and the brevity of her life: she produced dozens of short stories, several journalistic pieces, a play, two novels, and hundreds of pieces of art. Pike draws upon critics, theorists, and historians to illuminate Fitzgerald’s work as dynamic, subversive and highly modernistic.