The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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Table of 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.