{"product_id":"the-american-mystery-american-literature-from-emerson-to-delillo-paperback-9780521783743","title":"The American Mystery; American Literature from Emerson to DeLillo (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521783743","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe American Mystery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Literature from Emerson to DeLillo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of essays by the late Tony Tanner on a wide range of key American authors.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTony Tanner (Author), Edward Said (Foreword by), Ian F. A. Bell (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521783743, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 March 2000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.378 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The range of essays in The American Mystery is impressive and speaks to the scope and versatility of Tanner's interest in American Literature...a valuable contribution to the study of U.S. literary history and a well-deserved tribute to one of its most devoted and talented researchers.\"   American Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. His work is familiar to generations of students and scholars, and has helped shape our understanding of the major nineteenth and twentieth century American writers. With a foreword by Edward Said and an introduction by Ian Bell which places Tanner's work in the larger context of critical approaches to American literature and culture in recent years, the book brings together Tanner's essays on a wide range of key American authors. Exploring writers as diverse as Melville, Emerson, Henry James, DeLillo and Pynchon, it offers an introduction to the major figures and themes in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword Edward Said\u003cbr\u003e I. Introduction A. F. Bell\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'Lustres and condiments': Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'A summer in the country': Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Nothing but cakes and ale': Herman Melville's White-Jacket\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'All interweavingly working together': Herman Melville's Moby-Dick\u003cbr\u003e 5. Melville's counterfeit detector: The Confidence Man\u003cbr\u003e 6. Henry James: the story in it - and the story without it\u003cbr\u003e 7. Henry James's 'saddest story': The Other House\u003cbr\u003e 8. Henry James and Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Feelings of middle life': William Dean Howells's Indian Summer\u003cbr\u003e 10. 'The story of the moon that never rose': F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby\u003cbr\u003e 11. Don DeLillo and 'the American mystery': Underworld\u003cbr\u003e 12. 'The rubbish-tip for subjunctive hopes': Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003411321112,"sku":"9780521783743","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521783743_e2b41024-28d2-4023-851e-f2854c42e45a.gif?v=1691367896","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-american-mystery-american-literature-from-emerson-to-delillo-paperback-9780521783743","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}