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The American Gothic In Leslie Fiedler s seminal study of American literature, Love and Death in the American Novel, rst published in 1960, Fiedler makes bold claims for the signi cance of the Gothic 1 genre to American literature. He asserts, for example, that It is the gothic form that has been most fruitful in the hands of our best writers (28
Sep 13, 2013 · Summary. American Gothic fiction has only recently been considered worthy of serious study. Before Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), such works were greatly deemphasized within the assumptions of New Criticism, “Old” Historicism, the History of Ideas, and the theories of literature and culture underpinning those ...
- Jerrold E. Hogle
- 2013
As Leslie Fiedler exuberantly claimed, American fiction has been “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction, nonrealistic and negative, sadist and melodramatic—a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation.” 1 That makes the American Gothic what Poe might have called a “legitimate” means for ...
Jan 11, 2022 · Leslie Aaron Fiedler (b. 1917–d. 2003) was a provocative American literary and cultural critic, essayist, and fiction writer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he was an outspoken gadfly who, living at the peripheries of literary power, challenged conventional ideas and styles.
The very fact of this volume indicates acceptance of what Leslie Fiedler was the fi rst to argue thoroughly in 1960: that American fi ction is quite frequently, if not always, “a gothic fi ction,” a “literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affi rmation” ( Fiedler 1966 : 29). Before Fiedler ’ s Love and Death in ...
satanic, or "gothic" passages of Hawthorne and Melville was an impish desire to joggle middle-class complacencies. Fiedler speaks of the great American authors?Mark Twain, Haw thorne, and Melville especially?as "duplicitous." It is amusing to ob serve Fiedler laboriously arriving at the conclusion, presented as his
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Jun 1, 2005 · Of the early 'Romance Thesis' critics, Leslie Fiedler and Irving Malin were unique in using the term American Gothic', but their work should also be distinguished from the contemporary use...
