Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne in Twelve Volumes
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneThe Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneThe Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneWorks
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneThe Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneCritical 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 Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneHawthorne and Melville
Author: Jana L. ArgersingerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327518
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive tools such as queer theory, globalist studies, political and social ideology, marketplace analysis, psychoanalytical and philosophical applications to literature, masculinist theory, and critical studies of race, the twelve essays in this book focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between the two writers. Jana L. Argersinger and Leland S. Person introduce the volume with a lively summary of the known biographical facts of the two writers’ relationship and an overview of the relevant scholarship to date. Some of the essays that follow broach the possibility of sexual dimensions to the relationship, a question that “looms like a grand hooded phantom” over the field of Melville-Hawthorne studies. Questions of influence--Hawthorne’s on Moby-Dick and Pierre and Melville’s on The Blithedale Romance, to mention only the most obvious instances--are also discussed. Other topics covered include professional competitiveness; Melville’s search for a father figure; masculine ambivalence in the marketplace; and political-literary aspects of nationalism, transcendentalism, race, and other defining issues of Hawthorne and Melville’s times. Roughly half of the essays focus on biographical issues; the others take literary perspectives. The essays are informed by a variety of critical approaches, as well as by new historical insights and new understandings of the possibilities that existed for male friendships in nineteenth-century American culture.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne