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The Business of Reflection : Hawthorne in His Notebooks
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ISBN: 0814271634 0814251706 Year: 2009 Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press,


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The life and genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
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ISBN: 0665849494 9700000007170 Year: 1906 Publisher: Boston : Toronto : R.G. Badger ; Copp, Clark,


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Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context
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ISBN: 9781316271537 9781107109339 9781107521490 1108650538 1108667880 1316271536 1107109337 9781108650533 9781108667883 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne and demonstrates why he continues to be a critically significant figure in American literature. The first section focuses on Hawthorne's interest in and knowledge of past (Puritan and colonial) and contemporary nineteenth-century history (women's, African American, Native American) as the inspiration for his writings and the source of his literary success. The second section explores his fascination with social history and popular culture by examining topics as mesmerism, utopian life styles, theatrical performances, and artistic innovations. The third section looks at how Hawthorne succeeded and excelled in the literary marketplace, as an author of children's literature, literary sketches, and historical romances. In the fourth section, Hawthorne's literary precursors, peers, colleagues, and successors are analyzed. In the final section, Hawthorne's attachment to family, nature, and home is examined as the source of creative inspiration and philosophical questing.


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Devils and rebels : the making of Hawthorne's damned politics
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ISBN: 9780472116690 047211669X 0472034332 9786612593840 0472025945 1282593846 9780472025947 9781282593848 6612593849 9780472034338 Year: 2008 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

The Cambridge introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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ISBN: 0521670969 9780521670968 052185458X 9780521854580 9780511610998 9780511275302 0511275307 0511271425 9780511271427 0511273045 9780511273049 0511274602 9780511274602 0511610998 1107165849 9781107165847 1280815523 9781280815522 0511568487 9780511568480 0511273835 9780511273834 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style. Leland S. Person also explains some of the significant cultural and social movements that influenced Hawthorne's most important writings: Puritanism, Transcendentalism and Feminism. The major works, including The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, as well as Hawthorne's important short stories and non-fiction, are analysed in detail. The book also includes a brief history and survey of Hawthorne scholarship, with special emphasis on recent studies. Students of nineteenth-century American literature will find this a rewarding and engaging introduction to this remarkable writer.


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Our old home : a series of English sketches
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ISBN: 1776597370 Year: 2014 Publisher: [Auckland, New Zealand] : The Floating Press,


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The entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne : haunted minds and ambiguous approaches
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ISBN: 1283155966 9786613155962 1571137572 1571133631 Year: 2011 Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House,

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Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the 'power of blackness' in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawthorne had already been accepted into the American canon, and since then, his works - especially 'The Scarlet Letter' - have remained ubiquitous in American culture. Along with this has come an explosion of Hawthorne criticism, from New Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies to queer theory, feminist scholarship, and transatlantic criticism, that shows no signs of slowing. This book charts Hawthorne's canonization and the ongoing critical discourse, drawing on two senses of 'entanglement.' First the sense from quantum physics, which allows us to see what were once seen as strict dualisms in Hawthorne as more complex relations where the poles of the would-be dualities play off of and affect each other; second, the sense of critics being tangled up in, caught up in, Hawthorne the man and his work and in previous critics' views of him. Charting the course of Hawthorne criticism as well as his place in popular culture, this book sheds light also on the culture in which his reception has occurred. Samuel Chase Coale is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.


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Hawthorne's histories, Hawthorne's world : from Salem to somewhere else
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ISBN: 1839983221 1839983248 183998323X Year: 2022 Publisher: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press,

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A collection of essays rather than a single, continuously argued monograph, this book collects together the essays Professor Colacurcio has written on Hawthorne since the publication of his ground-breaking Province of Piety, elaborating and refining his analyses of how Hawthorne's most memorable early tales 'do history,' but proceeding then to explore the later productions of that author's distinguished career. The result, in Colacurcio's patient analysis, is something like Hawthorne's history of his own times.

To be sure, The Scarlet Letter returns to the rich theme we know as 'the matter of the Puritans,' but rides up from a moment, and clearly implies the vibrant but troubled women's movement; and, imagining the world Hester Prynne as good as predicted, The Blithedale Romance deepens the sensitive but cautious inquiry. Contemporaneous too is the subject of The House of the Seven Gables which, stopping just short of discovering that property is theft, dares to inquire into the murky sources of aristocratic wealth and privilege in his present New England. From the moment between the early tales and the three American romances, the tales and sketches written at the Old Manse in Concord reveal Hawthorne's fascinated and troubled response to that swirl of contemporary reform movements which historians know as 'Freedom's Ferment'; several encounter Emerson explicitly, and even more question the life-implications of 'idealism as it appears in 1842,' as Emerson had defined his Transcendentalism.

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