In Hawthorne's shadow : American romance from Melville to Mailer / Samuel Chase Coale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coale, Samuel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Romanticism--United States.

Romanticism.

Manichaeism in literature.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Influence.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""The world is so sad and solemn,"" wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, ""that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves."" From the radical dualism of Hawthorne's vision, Samuel Coale argues, springs a continuing tradition in the American novel. In Hawthorne's Shadow is the first critical study to describe precisely the formal shape of Hawthorne's psychological romance and to explore his themes and images in relation to such contemporary writers as John Cheever, Norman Mailer

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Hawthorne's Shadow ; 2. Melville to Mailer: Manichean Manacles ; 3. Harold Frederic: Naturalism as Romantic Snarl ; 4. Faulkner, McCullers, O'Connor, Styron: The Shadow on the South ; 5. John Cheever: Suburban Romancer ; 6. John Updike: The Beauty of Duality ; 7. John Gardner: Slaying the Dragon ; 8. Joyce Carol Oates: Contending Spirits ; 9. Joan Didion: Witnessing the Abyss ; 10. Hawthorne and the Sixties: Careening on the Utmost Verge ; Notes ; Primary Sources ; Bibliographical Essay ; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R

ST; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Bibliography: p. [233]-236.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-6248-3

OCLC:

565113953