In Hawthorne's Shadow : American Romance from Melville to Mailer.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
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 -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, -- 1804-1864 -- Influence. American fiction -- History and criticism. Romanticism -- United States. Manichaeism in literature.