The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. With a foreword by Edward Said and an introduction by Ian Bell, which place Tanner's work in the larger context of critical approaches to American literature and culture, this 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.
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"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
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The late Tony Tanner was one of the most distinctive and distinguished critical voices on American literature. 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, 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.
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It is said that Nietzsche never travelled without carrying a volume of Emerson's essays with him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mechanical duck, glittering things Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Herman Melville, Library of America, Thomas Pynchon, United States, Scott Fitzgerald, Jordan Baker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jack Chase, Jay Gatsby, Literary Criticism, Mark Twain, Leon Edel, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance, Penguin Books, Bill Gray, Harvard University Press, New England, Old Moodie, Priscilla Zirker, Tom Buchanan, American Navy, Bad Heroine, Blatchford Sarmenington, Bruce Franklin New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Blithedale Romance (Penguin Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne on 13 pages
- Indian Summer (New York Review Books Classics) by William Dean Howells on 11 pages
- The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade; An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Reviews, Criticism and an Annotated Bibliography (A Norton) by Herman Melville on 8 pages
- The Great Gatsby (Textplus) by Francis Scott Fitzgerald on 7 pages
- Great Gatsby (Penguin Longman Reader Level 5) by Fitzgerald F Scott on 7 pages
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- Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present (Cultural History of Literature) by Geoff Ward in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society by John Paul Russo in Back Matter
- Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (New Americanists) by Paul Giles in Back Matter
- Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form by Michael Hrebeniak in Back Matter
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