The American Mystery: American Literature from Emerson to DeLilloCambridge University Press, 2000 M03 16 - 242 pages 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. |
Contents
Lustres and condiments Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays | 1 |
A summer in the country Nathaniel Hawthornes The Blithedale Romance | 9 |
Nothing but cakes and ale Herman Melvilles WhiteJacket | 39 |
All interweavingly working together Herman Melvilles MobyDick | 62 |
Melvilles counterfeit detector The ConfidenceMan | 81 |
Henry James The Story In It and the story without it | 104 |
Henry Jamess saddest story The Other House | 121 |
Henry James and Shakespeare | 132 |
Feelings of middle life William Dean Howellss Indian Summer | 149 |
The story of the moon that never rose F Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby | 166 |
Don DeLillo and the American mystery Underworld | 201 |
The RubbishTip for subjunctive Hopes Thomas Pynchons Mason Dixon | 222 |
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