The Curnutt and Kosiba collection moves our definition of regionalism into new territories: in these essays geography becomes economics and gender, and what we think we know about the Fitzgeralds expands usefully. Providing new perspectives on the fiction and non-fiction of both Zelda and Scott, The Romance of Regionalism also showcases a new range of brilliant critics.

Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The contributors to this collection about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald adopt a new perspective, looking at them both from the American South. The results are excellent. We don't normally think of the Fitzgeralds as regionalist writers, but perhaps they were --- in the best sense.

James L. W. West III, General Editor Emeritus, Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition

This valuable collection of new essays is a long overdue detailed examination of the role the South played in the lives and writings of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. It not only complicates our understanding of how they depicted the region in their works, but also enables fifteen experienced and knowledgeable Fitzgerald scholar-critics to provide authoritative and informed close readings of previously under-studied, or in some cases totally overlooked, novels or short stories by both Fitzgeralds. It is a major contribution to the study of two important figures in American literary history which significantly widens our understanding of their careers.

Jackson R. Bryer, University of Maryland, and President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society

The collected essays in The Romance of Regionalism signal in its title the same allure of myth and demonstrates the fashioning of myth in the personal history and imaginative work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Whether examining Zelda's fictional treatment of the limitations and opportunities that modernity afforded the daughters of the old Confederacy or deconstructing her husband's multiple versions of a single Civil War narrative, the inventive approaches to the Fitzgeralds' protean relationship with southern history and myth making makes these essays essential reading for anyone who desires a richer account of the tales, fables, and fantasies that helped the couple make sense of themselves.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Review