The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to Delillo

ISBN-13: 9780521783743 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 268 str.

Tony Tanner; Edward W. Said; Ian A. Bell

Opis

The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. With a foreword by Edward Said and an introduction by Ian Bell, which place Tanner's work in the larger context of critical approaches to American literature and culture, this book brings together Tanner's essays on a wide range of key American authors. Exploring writers as diverse as Melville, Emerson, Henry James, DeLillo and Pynchon, it offers an introduction to the major figures and themes in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature.

Recenzje

"The range of essays in The American Mystery is impressive and speaks to the scope and versatility of Tanner's interest in American Literature...a valuable contribution to the study of U.S. literary history and a well-deserved tribute to one of its most devoted and talented researchers." American Studies

Spis treści

Foreword Edward Said; I. Introduction A. F. Bell; 1. 'Lustres and condiments': Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays; 2. 'A summer in the country': Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance; 3. 'Nothing but cakes and ale': Herman Melville's White-Jacket; 4. 'All interweavingly working together': Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; 5. Melville's counterfeit detector: The Confidence Man; 6. Henry James: the story in it - and the story without it; 7. Henry James's 'saddest story': The Other House; 8. Henry James and Shakespeare; 9. 'Feelings of middle life': William Dean Howells's Indian Summer; 10. 'The story of the moon that never rose': F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; 11. Don DeLillo and 'the American mystery': Underworld; 12. 'The rubbish-tip for subjunctive hopes': Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon.