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Love and Death in the American Novel

Book information

Publisher
Criterion Books
Year
1960
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
12 MB (12754973 bytes)
Pages
637\637
DPI
600
Scanned
no
Time added
2013-10-05 18:24:30

Description

"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."—Washington PostA retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work." This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler's once scandalous—now increasingly accepted—judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.

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