Comprehensive Bibliography
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Cantor, Jillian. Beautiful Little Fools. HarperCollins, 1 Feb. 2022.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Project Gutenberg, 17 Jan. 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64317/64317-h/64317-h.htm.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Letter to Maxwell Perkins. July 2022. Canvas.
Giles, Paul. “Aquinas vs. Weber: Ideological Esthetics in ‘The Great Gatsby.’” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 22, no. 4, 1989, pp. 1–12. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24780723.
Jakewalk. 2025. Re/Reading Gatsby. Hypothes.is Annotation, Project Gutenberg. 24 Jan. 2025, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64317/64317-h/64317-h.htm.
Kaston, Carren O. Review of The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction. The Henry James Review, vol. 2, no. 1, 1980, pp. 68–69. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hjr.2010.0022.
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Mahlia.riviera. 2025. Re/Reading Gatsby. Hypothes.is Annotation, Project Gutenberg. 19 Jan. 2025, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64317/64317-h/64317-h.htm.
McClellan, Fletcher, and Kayla L. Gruber. “Conceptual Blending in Presidential Politics: How The Great GatsbyExplained Donald Trump, 2015–18.” ResearchGate, 17 Oct. 2021, www.researchgate.net/publication/355356550.
Mintler, Catherine. 21st Century Great Gatsby. Expo 1213-001/002, 5 Jan. 2025, https://canvas.ou.edu/courses/290048/assignments/2232667.
Mueller, Gustav E. “Philosophy in the Twentieth-Century American Novel.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 16, no. 4, 1958, pp. 471–81. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/428044.
Paul, Heike. “Expressive Individualism and the Myth of the Self-Made Man.” The Myths That Made America: An Introduction to American Studies, transcript Verlag, 2014, pp. 367–420. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1wxsdq.11.
Rule-Maxwell, Lauren. “The New Emperor’s Clothes: Keatsian Echoes and American Materialism in ‘The Great Gatsby.’” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, vol. 8, 2010, pp. 57–78. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41583155.
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Oxford UP, 2025.
The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription. National Archives, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 4 May 2020, www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript.
Thoby, Arthur. Capitalism as Religion, https://www.tcd.ie/Economics/assets/pdf/SER/2012/Capitalism%20as%20Religion.pdf.
Westbrookinthewild. 2025. Re/Reading Gatsby. Hypothes.is Annotation, Project Gutenberg. 22 Jan. 2025, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64317/64317-h/64317-h.htm.
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