Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Richard H. MillingtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826670
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne's writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essays explore Hawthorne's art in relation to a stimulating array of issues and approaches. The essays reveal how Hawthorne's work explores understandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood and selfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity. An Introduction and a selected bibliography will help students and teachers understand how Hawthorne has been a crucial figure for each generation of readers of American literature.
The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
ISBN: 9780814202043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hawthorne
Author: Brenda WineapplePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307808661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said. Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow. In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner and Gertrude and Leo Stein (“Luminous”–Richard Howard), brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls. Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual. Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time. Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthorne’s fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit.
The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The house of the seven gables
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne's Tales
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393935646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Included here are the prefaces Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote for the three collections of tales published during his lifetime, along with selections from his 'American Notebooks' and relevant letters.
Hawthorne and the Real
Author: Millicent BellPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209866
Category : Literature and society
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Hawthorne was, with his own complicity, long described as a writer of unreal romances (as he preferred to call his novels) or "allegories of the heart" as he termed some of his short stories. The essays in this collection contribute to the turn in recent Hawthorne criticism which shows how deeply implicated in realism his writing was."--BOOK JACKET.
Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances
Author: David B. DiamondPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000408795
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Offering innovative, psychoanalytic readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s four romances, this volume systematically applies Freudian theory to present significant new insights into the psychology of Hawthorne’s characters and their fates. By critically examining scenes in which the protagonists confront past traumas, Diamond underscores the transformative potential which Hawthorne attributes to encounters with the unconscious. Psychoanalytic narrative technique is employed to interpret the psychogical crises, all hidden by Hawthorne in narrative gaps, in The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. The protagonists' transformations that are illuminated are crucial to an understanding of the trajectory and resolution of the romances. The text will benefit both academic and non-academic readers who seek a deeper understanding of the psychology of Hawthorne's romances. It will be of particular interest to educators and researchers of applied psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic technique. Since its conclusions challenge many currently held critical views, this volume is especially relevant to scholars of Hawthorne studies, interdisciplinary literary studies, and 19th century American literature.
Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Scenes of Shame
Author: Joseph AdamsonPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791439760
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Explores the role of shame as an important affect in the complex psychodynamics of literary and philosophical works.