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Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.

Mythology in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Mythology; Antebellum America; Vormärz Germany; Politics; National Identity; Narratology; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Karl Gutzkow; William Wells Brown; Heinrich Heine; America; Culture; American Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; Literary Studies --- America. --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Antebellum America. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Heinrich Heine. --- Karl Gutzkow. --- Literary Studies. --- Narratology. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- National Identity. --- Politics. --- Vormärz Germany. --- William Wells Brown.

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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.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- 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, --- Hās̲ūran, Nātānīl --- Hās̲ūrn, Nātānīl --- هاثورن، ناتانيل --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Geschichte. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- American culture. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- guilt. --- haunted. --- sin.

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Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. Volume 1: History, Geography, and Culture, looks at the novel mostly from the outside, treating the transition from oral to written storytelling and the rise of narrative and fictionality, and covering the ancient Greek novel, the novel in premodern China, the early Spanish novel, and much else, including readings of novels from around the world. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.

Plurality of worlds in literature. --- A Book Of. --- Author. --- Ballantine Books. --- Ben Okri. --- Bildungsroman. --- Biographical novel. --- Book. --- Buchi Emecheta. --- Buddenbrooks. --- Canon (fiction). --- Castle in the Air (novel). --- Critical Essays (Orwell). --- D. H. Lawrence. --- Deathless (novel). --- Devotio Moderna. --- Diary. --- Dime novel. --- Divergent (novel). --- Edward Said. --- English novel. --- English poetry. --- Epic and Novel. --- Epigram. --- Epistolary novel. --- Fabulation. --- Feuilleton. --- Fiction writing. --- Fiction. --- G. (novel). --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- God Knows (novel). --- Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights). --- Historical fiction. --- Historiography. --- Horace Walpole. --- Ibid (short story). --- In Parenthesis. --- Inception. --- Indulekha (novel). --- J. R. R. Tolkien. --- Kenneth Burke. --- Kusamakura (novel). --- La Religieuse (novel). --- Le Morte d'Arthur. --- Literary fiction. --- Literary theory. --- Literature and Revolution. --- Literature. --- Matter of Britain. --- Memoir. --- Mervyn Peake. --- Mine Boy (novel). --- Modernity. --- Narration. --- Narrative. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- Niranjana (writer). --- Novel of manners. --- Novel. --- Novelas ejemplares. --- Novelist. --- Novella. --- Pen name. --- Persius. --- Picaresque novel. --- Poetry. --- Point of Origin (novel). --- Postmodern literature. --- Proletarian literature. --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Puritans. --- Raag Darbari (novel). --- Rant (novel). --- Romance novel. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Sine ira et studio. --- Superiority (short story). --- Taiping Guangji. --- Terra Nostra (novel). --- The Empire Writes Back. --- The Franklin's Tale. --- The Great Indian Novel. --- The Modern World (novel). --- The Realist. --- The Tale of the Heike. --- Theodore Dreiser. --- Tobias Smollett. --- Troilus and Criseyde. --- Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel). --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Victorian literature. --- Waverley Novels. --- World literature. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- Zaynab (novel). --- Zhuangzi (book).