{"product_id":"2026200008813-secondhand-love-and-death-in-the-american-novel","title":"Love And Death In The American Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of American literary criticism, Love and Death in the American Novel presents a bold and provocative thesis: that American fiction is fundamentally defined by its evasion of adult heterosexual love and its obsessive return to themes of death, race, and innocence. Leslie A. Fiedler argues with brilliant irreverence that the great novels of the American canon — from Cooper and Poe to Twain and Melville — are haunted by a flight from civilisation, women, and maturity into a mythologised wilderness of male companionship. With sweeping cultural insight, the work dissects the recurring archetypes of the gothic, the sentimental, and the homoerotic undercurrents that run beneath the surface of the American literary tradition. Controversial upon its first publication and enduringly influential, it remains one of the most stimulating and challenging works of literary and cultural criticism produced in the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956430352603,"sku":"2026200008813-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d014db13-c118-42ce-82a5-017aba624a32.png?v=1783500940","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200008813-secondhand-love-and-death-in-the-american-novel","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}