| Description |
ix, 245 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 233-236. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Hawthorne's shadow -- Melville to Mailer: Manichean manacles -- Harold Frederic: naturalism as romantic snarl -- Faulkner, McCullers, O'Connor, Styron: the shadow on the South -- John Cheever: suburban romancer -- John Updike: the beauty of duality -- John Gardner: slaying the dragon -- Joyce Carol Oates: contending spirits -- Joan Didion: witnessing the abyss -- Hawthorne and the sixties: careening on the utmost verge. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Influence.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. |
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Romanticism -- United States.
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Romanticism. |
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United States. |
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Manichaeism in literature.
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Manichaeism in literature. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Coale, Samuel. In Hawthorne's shadow. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1985 (OCoLC)565113953 |
| ISBN |
0813115450 |
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9780813115450 |
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