bsmall2Jun 7
> ... Novels like “Huckleberry Finn” and “Moby-Dick,” he wrote, represent a vision “so sentimental, so outrageous, so desperate, that it redeems our concept of boyhood from nostalgia to tragedy,” a dream in which the white settler is embraced by those “he has most utterly offended,” those he has enslaved and colonized. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/08/love-and-death-in-the-american-novel-leslie-fiedler-book-review
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“Love and Death in the American Novel,” Reviewed

Becca Rothfeld on the literary critic Leslie Fiedler’s classic study of American fiction between 1789 and 1959, which was originally published in 1960 and was reissued by New York Review Books this year.

The New Yorker
bs2Jan 23, 2022
> He is said, on Robert Buchanan's authority, to have thundered "No," when in his later years he was asked if he were a Christian. But his defiance was the defiance of a Christian, the dauntlessness of a knight of the Holy Ghost. Perhaps it is that he was more Christian than the Christians.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12600/12600-h/12600-h.htm#VII
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of Old And New Masters, by Robert Lynd.