Love and death in the American novel

About this book

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.

Subjects

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• american fiction
• american fiction, history and criticism
• american fiction--history and criticism
• american literature, history and criticism
• american national characteristics
• american psychological fiction
• archetype (psychology)
• archetype (psychology) in literature
• death in literature
• histoire et critique
• history and criticism
• literature and anthropology
• literature and anthropology--united states
• love in literature
• masculinity in literature
• myth in literature
• mythology in literature
• national characteristics, american, in literature
• national characteristics in literature
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• race relations in literature
• roman américain
• united states