{"product_id":"love-and-death-in-the-american-novel-9781681379692","title":"Love and Death in the American Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative work of American literary criticism covering Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, and others. Fielder's groundbreaking work changed the way we see the American novel--and American culture at large--forever.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeslie Fiedler was one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century, a maverick of American letters whose fearless and impassioned criticism polarized readers but also informs much of our understanding of American literature and culture today. First published in 1960, \u003ci\u003eLove and Death in the American Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is Fiedler’s magnum opus, a groundbreaking study of the American novel from the time of the revolution to the time of Fiedler’s writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiedler conceived of his book as being itself a kind of gothic novel, one whose subject was the American experience as portrayed in classic American fiction. Through clear-eyed examinations of the works of writers such as Cooper, Poe, Twain, Melville, Hawthorne, and Faulkner, Fiedler makes the audacious—and compelling—argument that the American novel differs from its European counterpart in its inability to deal with sexuality between men and women, and its obsession instead with violence, escape, and death.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516020121943,"sku":"9781681379692","price":19.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/love-and-death-in-the-american-novel-9781681379692","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}