Tony Tanner

The American Mystery

American Literature from Emerson to Delillo

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays by the late Tony Tanner on a wide range of key American authors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521783743
• ISBN-10: 0521783747
• Artikelnr.: 22143538

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Edward Said
I. Introduction A. F. Bell
1. 'Lustres and condiments': Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays
2. 'A summer in the country': Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance
3. 'Nothing but cakes and ale': Herman Melville's White-Jacket
4. 'All interweavingly working together': Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
5. Melville's counterfeit detector: The Confidence Man
6. Henry James: the story in it - and the story without it
7. Henry James's 'saddest story': The Other House
8. Henry James and Shakespeare
9. 'Feelings of middle life': William Dean Howells's Indian Summer
10. 'The story of the moon that never rose': F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
11. Don DeLillo and 'the American mystery': Underworld
12. 'The rubbish-tip for subjunctive hopes': Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon.