Love and Death in the American Novel

by Leslie A. Fiedler

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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 scandalousnow increasingly acceptedjudgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.

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INDISPENSABLE FOR ANY STUDENT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1998-12-14
How quickly Americans forget. No one covers American literature with more knowledge, humor, insight and depth. This work is an American classic like the classics he covers: Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn & The Scarlet Letter. I don't know how you get through graduate school without reading this work, the first in a trilogy. Fiedler's other two fine books being Waiting for the End, and The Return of the Vanishing American.

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