Fortress of Failure: Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's Forgotten Medievalist Stories - Softcover

Sypeck, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798994522608

Verlag: Quid Plura Books, 2026

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From 1934 to 1941, the women’s magazine Redbook published four stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald set in early medieval France, half of an eight-story cycle the author did not live long enough to complete. Deemed by Fitzgerald’s daughter to be unworthy of reprinting, the “Philippe, Count of Darkness” stories remain some of the most obscure work by an otherwise widely read and thoroughly studied American author.



This essay considers Fitzgerald’s “Philippe” stories through the lens of American medievalism, our ongoing tendency to rework and selectively reimagine the Middle Ages to suit our changing assumptions and agendas. Seen in this light as fascinating failures, these stories hold value as relics of the medievalism of Fitzgerald’s life and times, illuminating from a strange new angle an author we thought we knew.

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From 1999 to 2009, Jeff Sypeck taught medieval literature, modern science fiction and fantasy, and a course on modern medievalism for the University of Maryland University College at the College Park and Shady Grove campuses. He is the author of the 2006 book Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800. Since 1999, he has worked as a writer and researcher for PhotoAssist, where he has helped the U.S. Postal Service develop more than 200 stamps and stamp sheets on a dizzying array of historical and cultural subjects. Born and raised in New Jersey, he now lives in an agricultural reserve in Maryland.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Quid Plura Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798994522608
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 58
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