Love and Death in the American Novel Author:Leslie A.Fiedler A retrospective article on Leslie Fielder in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to this work as "one of the great, essential books on American Imagination -- an accepted major work." This groundbreaking critical tome, first published in 1960, explores both Amscan literature and character from the Revolutionary War to the present. Fr... more »om it, there emerges Fielder's once scandalous -- now increasingly accepted -- judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is obsessed with death.« less