The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo /

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Main Author: Tanner, Tony
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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245 1 4 |a The American mystery :  |b American literature from Emerson to DeLillo /  |c Tony Tanner ; foreword by Edward Said ; introduction by Ian A.F. Bell. 
246 3 0 |a American literature from Emerson to DeLillo 
260 |a Cambridge ;  |a New York :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2000. 
300 |a xxiv, 242 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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