Love and Death in the American Novel

• Campaign highlighting this seminal work of American literary criticism
• Print and digital publicity targeting NPR, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation
• Promotion and outreach to university literature departments
• Review copies sent targeting all major print and digital literary media outlets, reviewers, and booksellers; additional copies available upon request
• Promotion on publisher’s website and social media; promotion via e-newsletters to booksellers, reviewers

A retrospective article on Leslie Fiedler in the New York Times Book Review in 1965 referred to Love and Death in the American Novel as “one of the great, essential books on the American imagination . . . an accepted major work.” 

This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler’s once scandalous—now increasingly accepted—judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.