Title Love and death in the American novel / Leslie A. Fiedler

Edition Revised edition Published New York : Stein and Day, 1966

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W'PONDS	813 F4525/L/1975		AVAILABLE

Description 512 pages ; 22 cm Contents pt. 1. Prototypes and early adaptations The novel and America -- The novel's audience and the sentimental love religion -- Richardson and the tragedy of seduction -- The bourgeois sentimental novel and the female audience -- The beginnings of the anti-bourgeois sentimental novel in America -- Charles Brockden Brown and the invention of the American Gothic -- James Fenimore Cooper and the historical romance -- pt. 2. Achievement and frustration Clarissa in America: toward Marjorie Morningstar -- Good good girls and good bad boys: Clarissa as a juvenile -- The revenge on woman: from Lucy to Lolita -- The failure of sentiment and the evasion of love -- The blackness of darkness: Edgar Allan Poe and the development of the Gothic -- The power of blackness: Faustian man and the cult of violence Summary The book views in depth both American literature and American character from the time of the revolution to the present. From there it emerges Professor Fiedler's...judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death--Jacket Analysis Archetype (Psychology) in literature Death in literature Literature and anthropology United States Love in literature Masculinity in literature National characteristics, American, in literature Psychological fiction, American History and criticism Race relations in literature Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Brown, Charles Brockden, 1771-1810. Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Criticism and interpretation. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation. Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation. Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation. Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Criticism and interpretation. American fiction -- History and criticism. Archetype (Psychology) in literature. Death in literature. Literature and anthropology -- United States. Love in literature. Masculinity in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature. Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism. National characteristics, American. Race relations in literature. Cultural Characteristics. Literature -- history. United States. United States. LC no. 66014948 ISBN 0812817990

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