Bryant Mangum
Bibliography
(with links to selected articles and chapters)
Professor of English
Virginia Commonwealth University
 


Books:
 

F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context, edited with an introduction by Bryant Mangum (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, in preparation; scheduled for publication in 2011).

Best Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited with an introduction by Bryant Mangum (New York: Random House, 2005).

A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories(New York: Garland, 1991).

How to Prepare for the Medical College Admission Test (New York: Barron's, 2008). Co-author, 11th edition.
 

Chapters and Essays in Books:

"Altering the Dresses: The Two Versions of Irwin Shaw's 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,'" Resources for American Literary Study, Volume 33 (2010), 171-204.

"The Short Stories of  F. Scott Fitzgerald," Cambridge Companion to the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

"F. Scott Fitzgerald: United States," Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger,
London and Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1998, pp.416-417.

"The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald,"    Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger, London and Chicago: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1998, pp. 514-515.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novelist and Short Story Writer,"  Reader's Guide to Literature in English, ed. Hawkins-Dady, Fitzroy-Dearborn, London, 1995, pp. 293-296.

"Fate and the Work Ethic in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Bowl,'" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Neglected Stories, ed. Jackson R. Bryer. University of Missouri Press, 1995, pp. 104 -117.

"Jamaica Kincaid," in Fifty Caribbean Writers, ed. Daryl Dance. Greenwood Press, 1986, pp. 255-63.  Reprinted in part in Short Stories for Students, ed. Tim Akers and Jerry Moore. Gale, 1999, pp. 363-4. Full text available online at questia.com.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald," The Critical Survey of Long Fiction, ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1983, pp. 953-67.

"Ernest Hemingway," in The Critical Survey of Long Fiction, ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1983, pp. 1337-49.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald,"in The Critical Survey of Short Fiction, ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1982, pp. 1368-77.

"Ernest Hemingway," in The Critical Survey of Short Fiction, ed. Frank Magill. Salem Press, 1982, pp. 1621-28.
 

Articles, Stories, Reviews, Notes:

"The Shelf Life of 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,'" The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Volume 7 Issue 1 (2009). Also online at http:www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122597064START

"Alice Adams," Encyclopedia Virginia (2009).  Online at http://staging.encyclopediavirginia.org/Adams_Alice_1926-1999

"Epic Grandeur, Eminence Grise: Remembering Matthew J. Bruccoli," The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Volume 6 Issue 2 (September 2007-2008).  Online at http://www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org/assets/BryantMangum.pdf

"Visions and Revisions of Irwin Shaw's 'The Girls in Their Summer Dresses,'" The CEA Critic, Volume 70, Number 1 (Fall 2007), 80-84. (Published 2008)

"Echoes of Arcady: F. Scott Fitzgerald and It's a Wonderful Life," The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, volume 5 (Fall 2006), 54-64. (Published 2008)

"There's Something Aabout that Dress: Myrtle Wilson and Violet Bick," The Fitzgerald Newsletter, Volume 16 (Fall 2006), 14-17. (Published January 2007)

"The Palms" (short story), The South Carolina Review, Volume 36, Number 1 (Fall 2003), 30-37.

"Recalling My Mentors," VCU Teaching 1998.

"The Teacher's Yoknapatawpha," VCU Teaching 1997.

"Thoughts on Teaching,"SAADE Newsletter (University of Florida), Fall 1994, 4-5.

"The World as Burning House: Ann Beattie and the Buddha," Notes on Contemporary Literature, 1990.

"The Hemingway Code and the Ten-Word Telegram," Lost Generation Journal, IX (Spring-Summer 1989), 9-10. Reprinted from "Ernest Hemingway," Critical Survey of Short Fiction, pp. 1621-8.

"An Approach to Teaching the Research Paper," Exercise Exchange: A Journal for Teachers of English, 27 (Fall 1982), 17-20.

"The Price Was High: The Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald" (review-essay), Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 11 (1979), 389-97.

"Cat's Cradle's Jonah-John and the Garden of Ice-Nine," Notes on Contemporary Literature (May 1979), 9-11.

"The Latter Days of Henry Fleming," American Notes & Queries (Fall 1976), 136-38.

"Crane's Red Badge and Zola's," American Literary Realism 1870-1910, IX (3), 1976, 279-280.

"Shakespeare's Tragedy of the Crazy Child," ExerciseExchange: A Journal for Teachers of English, 21 (Fall 1976), 3-8.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ledger: A Facsimile of the Manuscripts" (review), Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 6 (1974), 253-56.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Study of the Stories" (review), Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 4 (1972), 411-15.

"The Reception of `Dearly Beloved,'" Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual 2 (1970), 241-44.
 
 

Miscellaneous:

"Zelda," Playbill for The Last Flapper

"Characteristics of Good Writing," from How to Prepare for the Medical College Admission Test, Barron's, 1997, p. 256.

"Growing Up in Darlington," The News & Press, Darlington, South Carolina (15 March 2001), B-1.