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1 online resource (ix, 228 pages) |
| Contents |
Hawthorne and the real / Millicent Bell -- Hawthorne and politics (again) : words and deeds in the 1850s / Michael T. Gilmore -- "Strangely ajar with the human race" : Hawthorne, slavery, and the question of moral responsibility / Larry J. Reynolds -- Hawthorne and the problem of "American" fiction : the example of The scarlet letter / Lawrence Buell -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and transnationality / John Carlos Rowe -- Revisiting Hawthorne's feminism / Nina Baym -- Hawthorne's early tales : male authorship, domestic violence, and female readers / Leland S. Person -- Working women and creative doubles in Hawthorne's Tales and The marble faun / David Leverenz -- Estranged allegiances in Hawthorne's unfinished romances / Rita K. Gollin -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer; or, The fleeing of the biographied / Brenda Wineapple |
| Summary |
"In this collection commemorating the bicentennial of Hawthorne's birth in 1804, Millicent Bell gathers essays by distinguished scholars and critics that examine the ways in which Hawthorne related himself to the "real" in his own world and expressed that relation in his writing. Radically revising the older view that he was detached from conditions of actual life in 19th-century American society, the authors undertake to show how current social conditions, current events and political movements taking place at a crucial point in American history were an evident part of Hawthorne's consciousness. The essays situate his imaginative writings in a contemporary context of common experience and rediscover a Hawthorne alert to pressing problems of his day, especially slavery, feminism, and reform in general - the very issues that motivated his contemporaries on the eve of the Civil War. 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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index |
| Notes |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 fast |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. swd |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Literature and society
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bell, Millicent
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| LC no. |
2004027320 |
| ISBN |
0814272827 |
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9780814272824 |
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9780814280157 |
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0814280153 |
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