Love and death in the American novel
By: Leslie A. Fiedler ; introduction by Charles B. Harris.
Edition: 1st Dalkey Archive ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Normal, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literature and anthropology -- United States; Masculinity in literature; Archetype (Psychology) in literature; Race relations in literature; Death in literature; Love in literature; Myth in literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.