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""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

American fiction --- History and criticism --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Influence --- Romanticism --- United States --- Frederic, Harold --- Criticism and interpretation --- Faulkner, William --- McCullers, Carson --- O'Connor, Flannery Mary --- Styron, William --- Cheever, John --- Gardner, John Champlin, Jr. --- Oates, Joyce Carol --- Didion, Joan --- Manichaeism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Gotorn, Nataniėlʹ --- Hotorn, Natanijel --- Huo-sang --- Huo-sang, Na-sa-ni-erh --- Hothorna, Netheniyala --- Готорн, Натаниэль --- האטארן, נאטאניעל, --- Huosang --- Huosang, Nasa'nier --- Nasa'nier Huosang --- 霍桑, --- 霍桑, 纳撒尼尔, --- 纳撒尼尔 霍桑, --- Hās̲ūran, Nātānīl --- Hās̲ūrn, Nātānīl --- هاثورن، ناتانيل --- Influence.