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Pursuing the Sublime in the Digital Age presents an historical and cultural overview of the sublime as personal experience and as described in fiction and culture. Samuel Coale offers insight into his interpretation of the sublime through analyses of philosophers and artists who have worked within romantic, modernist and postmodern traditions. His narrative is designed for use as a template through which readers can explore and examine their o...

This new work is currently the only book devoted to the teaching of one of the most canonical and frequently taught American authors. In addition to a Preface by the noted Hawthorne scholar Larry J. Reynolds [University Distinguished Professor and Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor of Liberal Arts Department of English Texas A&M, University] the contributors include well-known and rising teacher-scholars who offer theoretical and pedagogical appro...

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A lively discussion of the prevalence of conspiracy thinking in American life, as reflected in contemporary literature.

The author explores the profound influence the mesmerist and spiritualist "craze" of the 1840s and 1850s had on Hawthorne's artistic vision and fictional techniques. Despite abhorring the "pseudosciences" as incarnations of witchcraft, their effect on the creation of his romances can be traced.

The process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works.

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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 sh...

Four American mystery writers have contributed new dimensions to the mystery form. Tony Hillerman's Navajos and their customs, Amanda Cross's (Carolyn Heilbrun's) academics and their feminist credentials (or lack thereof), James Lee Burke's Southern Louisiana Cajuns and his own fiercely moral take on Southern gothic fiction, and Walter Mosley's urban blacks and their culture have challenged the conventional mystery's focus.