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Article: Leslie Fiedler and American Culture.(Review)

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June 22, 2000
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Steven G. Kellman and Irving Malin, eds. Leslie Fiedler and American Culture. Univ. of Delaware Press, 1999. 199 pp. $36.50.

This is a welcome Festschrift in honor of Leslie Fiedler, long a lightning rod in the study of American culture and literature. After an introduction and chronology, the volume begins with two samples of Fiedler's thinking, including the landmark 1948 essay, "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!" Following this, a series of essays examines, by focusing on individual works, the breadth of Fiedler's writing from fiction and autobiography through his literary criticism. The final section consists of paeans, some from such well-recognized ...

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