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603 pages ; 22 cm |
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Prototypes and early adaptations. The novel's audience and the sentimental love religion ; Richardson and the tragedy of seduction ; The bourgeois sentimental novel and the female audience ; The beginnings of the anti-bourgeois sentimental novel in America ; Charles Brockden Brown and the invention of the American gothic ; James Fenimore Cooper and the historical romance -- Development and frustration. Clarissa in America: toward Marjorie Morningstar ; Good good girls and good bad boys : Clarissa as a juvenile ; The revenge on woman : from Lucy to Lolita ; The failure of sentiment and the evasion of love ; The blackness of darkness: E.A. Poe and the development of the gothic ; The power of blackness: Faustian man and the cult of violence -- Accommodation and transcendence. The Scarlet letter : woman as Faust ; Moby Dick : the baptism of fire and the baptism of sperm ; Huckleberry Finn : Faust in the Eden of childhood. |
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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National characteristics, American.
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Love in literature.
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Death in literature.
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