Samuel Chase Coale
Biographic Data
| ID | 5683036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Chase Coale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel Chase |
| FAMILY NAME | Coale |
| SIGNATURE | COALE S C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Mesmerism and Hawthorne
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 b…
Structuring the Void
If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Void, an account of what today's novelists and short story writers do when they produce a fictive work. Klinkowitz's focus is on the way in which writers have turned this lack of content itself into subject matter, …
In Hawthorne's Shadow
Marriage in Contemporary American Literature
Frederic and Hawthorne
AROLD FREDERIC'S The Damnation of Ware has puzzled JUL critics ever since its appearance on the best-seller list in I896. Most have chosen to look at it as yet another example of emerging American naturalism in the world. There are, indeed, reasons for this assumption, as we shall see, but Frederic was really trying to accomplish something else. Frederic himself, when asked about his literary parentage, mentioned Emile Erchmann and Alexandre Chat…
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Frederic and Hawthorne
AROLD FREDERIC'S The Damnation of Ware has puzzled JUL critics ever since its appearance on the best-seller list in I896. Most have chosen to look at it as yet another example of emerging American naturalism in the world. There are, indeed, reasons for this assumption, as we shall see, but Frederic was really trying to accomplish something else. Frederic himself, when asked about his literary parentage, mentioned Emile Erchmann and Alexandre Chat…
Marriage in Contemporary American Literature
In Hawthorne's Shadow
Structuring the Void
If, as the literary theorists of postmodernism contend, does not exist, then how can fiction continue to be written? Jerome Klinkowitz, himself a veteran practitioner and theorist of fiction, addresses this question in Structuring the Void, an account of what today's novelists and short story writers do when they produce a fictive work. Klinkowitz's focus is on the way in which writers have turned this lack of content itself into subject matter, …
Mesmerism and Hawthorne
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 b…
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