In Hawthorne's shadow : American romance from Melville to Mailer / / Samuel Chase Coale

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460951603321
• Autore: Coale Samuel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1985; ©1985
• ISBN: 0-8131-6248-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.009/145
• Soggetti: American fiction - History and criticism; Romanticism - United States; Manichaeism in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. [233]-236.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Hawthorne's Shadow ; 2. Melville to Mailer: Manichean Manacles ; 3. Harold Frederic: Naturalism as Romantic Snarl ; 4. Faulkner, McCullers, O'Connor, Styron: The Shadow on the South ; 5. John Cheever: Suburban Romancer ; 6. John Updike: The Beauty of Duality ; 7. John Gardner: Slaying the Dragon ; 8. Joyce Carol Oates: Contending Spirits ; 9. Joan Didion: Witnessing the Abyss ; 10. Hawthorne and the Sixties: Careening on the Utmost Verge ; Notes ; Primary Sources ; Bibliographical Essay ; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; ST; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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

The mantra of efficiency [[electronic resource] ] : from waterwheel to social control / / Jennifer Karns Alexander

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780855403321
• Autore: Alexander Jennifer Karns <1963->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8018-9330-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 233 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 338/.06409
• Soggetti: Technological innovations - History; Industrial efficiency; Science and industry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-199) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: The varieties of efficiency -- Static and dynamic efficiency: the waterwheels of Smeaton and the Franklin Institute -- The effects of control: Gerard-Joseph Christian and perfected machines -- Economy of nature: Darwin, Marshall, and the costs of efficiency -- Balance and transformation: technical and popular efficiency in the Progressive Era United States -- An island of mechanical predictability: efficient worker seating in late Weimar Germany -- Pride in efficiency: the dispute over Time on the cross -- Global efficiency: an enduring industrial value in a postindustrial world -- Conclusion: The future of efficiency -- Notes -- Bibliographic essay -- Index.