num_pages: 520
description: A 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.
language: English
title: Love and Death in the American Novel
titlecomplete: Love and Death in the American Novel
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, History, Criticism, Gothic, Writing, Cultural, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 258
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press