Love and Death in the American Novel  

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"Finally, there is the archetypal function of the basic gothic story; for such a function it must have or it could not have persisted as it did.” --Love and Death in the American Novel (1960) by Leslie Fiedler, p. 128.

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Love and Death in the American Novel (1960) is a book on literary theory by Leslie Fiedler.

It is Fiedler’s most widely recognized book. The book involves a deconstruction of the concept of the “great American novel” and how it is both derivative of, and separate from, the established European novel forms.

It offended many because of the manner in which Fiedler discusses the American literary tradition.

A massive text of well over 600 pages, it eventually became the subject of revision by Fiedler. He produced a more streamlined, focused version of the book which was published in 1966.

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