عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PS 371 .F544 1997
PS
371
.
F544
1997
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1564781631
(Number (ISBN
9781564781635
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b420119
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Love and death in the American novel /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Leslie A. Fiedler ; introduction by Charles B. Harris.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
First Dalkey Archive edition.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 512 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Dalkey Archive scholarly series
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"Originally published by Stein and Day"--Title page verso.
Text of Note
Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.
Race relations in literature.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PS
371
Book number
.
F544
1997
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Fiedler, Leslie A.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20170104232827.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
