American Mystery - American Literature From Emerson to Delillo

List of contents

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.

Summary

The late Tony Tanner was a distinctive and distinguished critical voice on American literature. With a foreword by Edward Said and an introduction by Ian Bell, the book brings together Tanner's essays on a wide range of key American authors from Melville, Emerson and Henry James to Delillo and Pynchon.

Product details

• Authors: Tony Tanner, Tony (King''s College Tanner, Tanner Tony
• Assisted by: Bell Ian F. A. (Introduction), Said Edward (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2000
• EAN: 9780521783743
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78374-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, American English, Literary studies: general