Bøker av Samuel Coale

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.

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.

Samuel Coale examines the works of four American mystery writers who have contributed new dimensions to the mystery form: Tony Hillerman's Navajos; Amanda Cross's (Carolyn Heilbrun's) feminist academics; James Lee Burke's Southern Louisiana Cajuns; and Walter Mosley's urban blacks.