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The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo
- Title
- The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo / Tony Tanner ; foreword by Edward Said ; introduction by Ian F.A. Bell.
- Author
- Tanner, Tony.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 01-224 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xxiv, 242 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Tony Tanner on American means of writing and means of writing America / Ian F.A. Bell -- Lustres and condiments: Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays -- 'A summer in the country': Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale romance -- 'Nothing but cakes and ale': Herman Melville's White-jacket -- 'All interweavingly working together': Herman Melville's Moby-Dick -- Melville's counterfeit detector: The confidence-man -- Henry James: 'The story in it' - and the story without it -- Henry James's 'saddest story': The other house -- Henry James and Shakespeare -- 'Feelings of middle life': William Dean Howells's Indian summer -- 'The story of the moon that never rose': F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby -- Don DeLillo and 'the American mystery': Underworld -- 'The rubbish-tip for subjunctive hopes': Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.
- Call Number
- JFE 01-224
- ISBN
- 0521780039 (hdbk.)
- 0521783747 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 99043661
- OCLC
- 42290647
- Author
- Tanner, Tony.
- Title
- The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo / Tony Tanner ; foreword by Edward Said ; introduction by Ian F.A. Bell.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 01-224