Author: Frank Preston StearnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Frank Preston StearnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Moncure Daniel ConwayPublisher: New York, A. Lovell & Company; London, W. Scott [c1890]
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. 2. Later national literature: pt. 1
Author: The Cambridge History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. II. Later national literature: pt. I
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The Independent
Author: Critical Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Sarah Bird WrightPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108532
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. This reference also provides entries on Hawthorne's family, friends - ranging from Herman Melville to President Franklin Pierce - publishers, and critics.
The Living Church
Author: Hawthorne
Author: Brenda WineapplePublisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812972910
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 Living Age
Author: Hawthorne
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108034624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
A biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64), an influence on James' own writing, and perhaps the first uniquely American novelist.