Title
The (Hi)story of their Lives: Mythic Autobiography and "The Lost Generation"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Traces the “historiographical” myth and transformation of the Lost Generation through Malcolm Cowley’s Exile Return (1934; 1951), F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up (1945), Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Argues that all three men were born into privilege and witnessed the birth of the modernist era but wrote their memoirs based on a borrowed plot structure rather than true eyewitness accounts.
Published in
Journal of American Studies
Volume
27
Date
Spring 1993
Pages
35-56
COinS
Citation
Dolan, Marc. “The (Hi)story of their Lives: Mythic Autobiography and ‘The Lost Generation.’” Journal of American Studies 27 (Spring 1993): 35-56.