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The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne-for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness-was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.

Domestic fiction, American --- Novelists, American --- Authors' spouses --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- Middle class in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- Family in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, --- Hawthorne family. --- Marriage. --- Family in literature --- Middle classes in literature --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Peabody, Sophia, --- Hawthorne, Sophia Amelia Peabody, --- Gotorn, Nataniėlʹ, --- Hotorn, Natanijel, --- Huo-sang, --- Huo-sang, Na-sa-ni-erh, --- Hothorna, Netheniyala, --- Готорн, Натаниэль, --- האטארן, נאטאניעל, --- Huosang, --- Huosang, Nasa'nier, --- Nasa'nier Huosang, --- 霍桑, --- 霍桑, 纳撒尼尔, --- 纳撒尼尔 霍桑, --- Literature --- Hās̲ūran, Nātānīl, --- Hās̲ūrn, Nātānīl, --- هاثورن، ناتانيل --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Gotorn, Nataniėlʹ --- Hotorn, Natanijel --- Huo-sang --- Huo-sang, Na-sa-ni-erh --- Hothorna, Netheniyala --- Готорн, Натаниэль --- Huosang --- Huosang, Nasa'nier --- Nasa'nier Huosang --- Hās̲ūran, Nātānīl --- Hās̲ūrn, Nātānīl --- Families in literature --- Marriage in literature --- Middle class in literature --- Psychoanalysis and literature --- History and criticism --- Families in literature.