American Tantalus: Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- UOA27-1440
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781501319624
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- American Tantalus argues that a paradigm of thwarted desire pervades US culture. It not only examines diverse responses to this paradigm but also points out its close resemblance to tantalise, a desire doomed to repulse its object. The book was five years in preparation, the research necessitating visits to archives in New York, Leeds, and London.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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