A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as "one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work." This groundbreaking work views in depth both American...
A 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....
Release Date: Jan 20, 2026
"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."--Washington Post
"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say."--Washington Post