Love & Death in the American NovelAnchor Books, 1992 - 519 pages "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." -- Amazon.com viewed August 27, 2020. |
Contents
The Novels Audience and the Sentimental | 39 |
The Bourgeois Sentimental Novel and | 74 |
The Beginnings of the AntiBourgeois Sentimental | 105 |
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