Leslie A. Fiedler ; introduction by Charles B. Harris.
First Dalkey Archive edition.
xii, 512 pages ;
22 cm.
Dalkey Archive scholarly series
"Originally published by Stein and Day"--Title page verso.
Includes index.
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 -- Clarissa in America: Towards Marjorie Morningstar -- Good Good Girls and Good Bad Boys: Clarissa as a Juvenile -- The Revenge on Woman: From Lucy to Lotita -- 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.
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"This 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."--Jacket.
American fiction-- History and criticism.
Archetype (Psychology) in literature.
Death in literature.
Literature and anthropology-- United States.
Love in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Myth in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.