How is ‘The Great Gatsby’ a Dark Academia book? Well, this is what we discuss in this week’s episode of The Dark Academicals. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel is often coined one of the Great American Novels but there are many elements that have influeced and informed Dark Academia titles that succeed it.

At least, we think so!

In this episode our discussion included:

• How does ‘The Great Gatsby’ stand up against the Dark Academia criteria?

• The portrayal of women and issues of racism within the text

• Character analysis of narrator Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan

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(Full bibilography and show notes made available through Patreon)

• ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt

• ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte