Love and Death in the American NovelThe book views in depth both American literature and American character from the time of the revolution to the present. From there it emerges Professor Fiedler's ... judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death--Jacket. |
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PROTOTYPES AND EARLY ADAPTATIONS | 3 |
Audience | 43 |
The Beginnings of the AntiBourgeois Sentimental | 81 |
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