Has anyone given a plausible explanation of why 19th century American literature was so queer (Melville, Whitman, Dickinson, James, etc. etc.). It's very striking.
Fiedler did have an explanation, a Freudian one (failure in frontier society to achieve emotional maturity so writers stuck at latency stage). I don't think it works though.
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I wrote a book sort of about this, though the critics who said that my close readings were more persuasive than my grand argument may have had a point. http://steamthing.com/american-sympathy …
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Here, roughly, are the "money quotes" from my book.pic.twitter.com/RBela9Itq2
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