About this title: An examination of American literature and the American personality from the colonial period to the present day. Fieldler maintains that American literature is largely incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 1992-05-01
ISBN-13:9780385424172ISBN:0385424175
Description: Fair. Great title in good condition. Underlining, marking, and margin notes throughout. Covers have some wear and rubbing on edges and corners. Light yellowing of covers and pages. Satisfaction guaranteed. If item not as described, return for refund of purchase price. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 1992-05-01
ISBN-13:9780385424172ISBN:0385424175
Description: Very Good. Book is in very good condition...Cover has very minor wear...Pages are in excellent condition, initials and numbers on cover page... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Date Published: 1998-01
ISBN-13:9781564781635ISBN:1564781631
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Meridian Books, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Wraps; 603 pages; First Meridian paperback printing 1962-MG43; Textblock is tight with no internal markings save for former owners name neatly written to the half-title page and light wear to textblock edges; Grey, red and black cover with no tears and modest shelf and edge wear including rubbing, some gentle creases; .....(An in-depth study of American fiction from 1789 to the modern present at time of printing. From it emerges an interesting picture. Ranges ... read more
Description: Very Good. B00005WB01 1966 revised edition Delta trade paperback. Very well-preserved, w/ a beautiful spine & almost no edgewear. Some age yellowing, underlinings thru chapter 4, p. o's name on 1/2 title page. Free delivery confirmation. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Delta / Dell
Date Published: 1966
Description: Good. 327-X Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Criterion Books, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Goldenrod 1/4 cloth, light red cloth, lettered in black. Mild shelf wear, some soiling to spine panel. Former owner signatures on front endsheets, else unmarked. xxxvi, 603 pp. No statement of edition or printing, thus likely an early reprint. read more
"An absolute must read for all students of American literature. Fiedler's incites into the development of a truly "American" genre are critical for understanding the place of American literature in the history of world lit. Every professor of American literature I ever had was heavily inflenced by Fielder's ideas."
"Thought-provoking and worth reading, especially as I am currently planning some rereads of Hawthorne and Faulkner. I think his conclusions (or tone) can be a reach at times, though, which admittedly helps add to the interest of the book on occasion (I mean, I read good bits wishing I could argue with him about Faulkner, as my take on Faulkner's women, among various issues, is somewhat different).
This is also interesting simply as an illustration of changing tastes in literature. A lot of the contemporary and recent authors he writes about are largely forgotten or not read now, and far less likely to be studied in school than it appears was the case when the book was written (I mean people like Robert Penn Warren, who gets substantial discussion of books other than All the King's Men, and even Thomas Wolfe, as well as some more obscure names)."
"In a notorious essay, Leslie Fiedler contended that while European novelists such as Tolstoy and Flaubert were writing about adult heterosexual relationships, most of the classic American novels of the 19th century like Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Melville's Moby Dick were "boy's books" in which at their heart was a chaste homosexual bond (in Melville, there are multiple, interracial male pairings). The essay was entitled "Come Back to the Raft Agin, Huck Honey." In other essays, Fiedler prefigured cultural studies by writing about Superman and comic books, genre fiction and pop culture. This is literary critic as cultural provocateur, and Fiedler's major work will both enlighten and outrage. Of Love and Death in the American Novel, the New York Times wrote, "One of the great, essential works on the American imagination." This reader concurs."
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