Bøger af Samuel Chase Coale

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

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, Joan Didion, John Gardner, Joyce Carol Oates, William Styron, and John Updike.