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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.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the 'power of blackness' in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawthorne had already been accepted into the American canon, and since then, his works - especially 'The Scarlet Letter' - have remained ubiquitous in American culture. Along with this has come an explosion of Hawthorne criticism, from New Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies to queer theory, feminist scholarship, and transatlantic criticism, that shows no signs of slowing. This book charts Hawthorne's canonization and the ongoing critical discourse, drawing on two senses of 'entanglement.' First the sense from quantum physics, which allows us to see what were once seen as strict dualisms in Hawthorne as more complex relations where the poles of the would-be dualities play off of and affect each other; second, the sense of critics being tangled up in, caught up in, Hawthorne the man and his work and in previous critics' views of him. Charting the course of Hawthorne criticism as well as his place in popular culture, this book sheds light also on the culture in which his reception has occurred. Samuel Chase Coale is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- 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 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Geschichte. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- American culture. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- guilt. --- haunted. --- sin.

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In Mesmerism and Hawthorne, Coale examines the mesmerist-spiritualist craze and relates it specifically to the way in which Hawthorne wrote fiction. Although many critics have discussed mesmerism as a theme in Hawthorne's work, few have analyzed the use of mesmerism as an influence on the very structure and texture of that work. For Hawthorne, mesmerism provided a fertile circumstance, complete with its sense of enchantment and the necessity of breaking its spell. The powers and techniques of mesmerism offered Hawthorne a way of describing the fiction he was trying to create. In effect what he described as the romance participates in the very acts of mesmerism it invokes and thematically or morally opposes. Thus, in creating his romances, Hawthorne employed his own mesmerist-like strategies in texts that participate in the very medium he abhorred. In effect, Coale concludes, Hawthorne's romances constitute a form of mesmeric expression themselves. Coale's examination of the processes of mesmerism - the creation of the trance, the entry into its dreamlike state, the psychology of idolatry produced by this procedure - clearly reveals the affinities between mesmerism and Hawthorne's art and discloses the power and scope of Hawthorne's distinctly American romance.

Mesmerism in literature --- Mesmerisme dans la littérature --- Mesmerisme in de literatuur --- Mesmerism --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Psychological fiction, American --- History and criticism --- History --- Knowledge --- Occultism --- Psychology --- Psychological fiction [American ] --- United States --- 19th century --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Psychological fiction, American - History and criticism --- Mesmerism - United States - History - 19th century --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, - 1804-1864 - Knowledge - Occultism --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, - 1804-1864 - Knowledge - Psychology --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, - 1804-1864