In Hawthorne's Shadow: American Romance from Melville to Mailer
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Rating | : | 4.21 (798 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0813115450 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
Language | : | English |
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Book by Coale, Samuel Chase
"A Monstrous Oeuvre of Manichean Proportions" according to R. Russell Bittner. If the title I've flung at the head of this review sounds a bit overripe, it's because I want to prepare you, dear reader, for a certain reality. In Hawthorne's Shadow: American Romance from Melville to Mailer is no vademecum or enchiridion for a day at the beach! Truth be told, some of Professor Coale's prose is as dense as anything I've ever read--and as a former philosophy major at Columbia University, I've read some damned dense stuff in my