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    • Source: Flaming Youth (novel)

      • Flaming Youth is a 1923 book, controversial in its time, published under the pseudonym "Warner Fabian", by Samuel Hopkins Adams.


      Context


      In the 1920s, Adams wrote two novels, Flaming Youth and Unforbidden Fruit, dealing with the sexual urges of young women in the Jazz Age. These novels had a sexual frankness that was surprising for their time, and Adams published them under the pseudonym "Warner Fabian" so that his other works would not be tainted by any scandal.


      Reception


      In his retrospective essay "Echoes of the Jazz Age", writer F. Scott Fitzgerald argued that Adams' novel persuaded certain moralistic Americans that their young girls could be "seduced without being ruined" and thus altered the sexual mores of the nation. The novel was adapted into the silent movie Flaming Youth in 1923. A reviewer for the Cincinnati Enquirer noted that the film was "far from being a faithful translation of the book on which it was based" since film censorship at the time would have required the elision of some scenes which appear in the novel.


      References




      Sources


      Fitzgerald, F. Scott. (1940). Echoes of the Jazz Age – via Echoes of the Jazz Age and Project Gutenberg Canada.


      Further reading


      Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Echoes of the Jazz Age (annotated)". Genius.com. Retrieved 17 August 2023. The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Volume 2 (1965)


      External links



      Flaming Youth at Project Gutenberg
      The full text of Flaming Youth at HathiTrust Digital Library
      Flaming Youth public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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