In Hawthorne's Shadow: American Romance from Melville to Mailer - Paperback

by Samuel Chase Coale (Author)

"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 explo

Author Biography

Samuel Coale, professor of English at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, is the author of John Cheever and Anthony Burgess.