Love and Death in the American Novel
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...
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"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."—Washington PostPublishers WeeklyProf. Fiedler's entertaining account of the American Novel's obsessions remains one of the key works of American studies more then 30 years after its first appearance. New afterword by the author. (June)
Preface to the Second Edition7Preface to the First Edition9Pt. 1Prototypes and Early Adaptations1The Novel and America232The Novel's Audience and the Sentimental Love Religion393Richardson and the Tragedy of Seduction624The Bourgeois Sentimental Novel and the Female Audience745The Beginnings of the Anti-Bourgeois Sentimental Novel in America1056Charles Brockden Brown and the Invention of the American Gothic1267James Fenimore Cooper and the Historical Romance162Pt. 2Achievement and Frustration8Clarissa in America: Toward Marjorie Morningstar2179Good Good Girls and Good Bad Boys: Clarissa as a Juvenile25910The Revenge on Woman: From Lucy to Lolita29111The Failure of Sentiment and the Evasion of Love33712The Blackness of Darkness: Edgar Allan Poe and the Development of the Gothic39113The Power of Blackness: Faustian Man and the Cult of Violence430Index506
\ Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly\ Prof. Fiedler's entertaining account of the American Novel's obsessions remains one of the key works of American studies more then 30 years after its first appearance. New afterword by the author. (June)\ \
