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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Fiedler, Leslie A. Love and death in the American novel. New York, Stein and Day, 1966 (OCoLC)570555610 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leslie A Fiedler |
| OCLC Number: | 270256 |
| Description: | 512 p. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Prototypes and early adaptations: The novel and America -- The novel's audience and the sentimental love religion -- Richardson and the tragedy of seduction -- The bourgeois sentimental novel and the female audience -- The beginnings of the anti-bourgeois sentimental novel in America -- Charles Brockden Brown and the invention of the American Gothic -- James Fenimore Cooper and the historical romance -- pt. 2. Achievement and frustration: Clarissa in America: toward Marjorie Morningstar -- Good good girls and good bad boys: Clarissa as a juvenile -- The revenge on woman: from Lucy to Lolita -- The failure of sentiment and the evasion of love -- The blackness of darkness: Edgar Allan Poe and the development of the Gothic -- The power of blackness: Faustian man and the cult of violence. |
| Responsibility: | [by] Leslie A. Fiedler. |
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