Hawthorne and women : engendering and expanding the Hawthorne tradition / edited by John L. Idol, Jr., and Melinda M. Ponder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Idol, John L., Jr. (John Lane), 1932-2021.

Ponder, Melinda M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Characters--Women.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Literature.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Influence.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Women--Books and reading.

Women.

Sex role in literature.

Women and literature.

Women in literature.

American literature--Women authors.

Physical Description:

ix, 323 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1999]

Summary:

Nathaniel Hawthorne is notorious for complaining in a letter to one of his publishers that a "damn'd mob of scribbling women" was stealing his audience. Elsewhere, he referred to women authors as "ink-stained Amazons" who were "without a single exception, detestable", and once expressed his wish that all women be "forbidden to write, on pain of having their faces deeply scarified with an oyster-shell".

This collection of original essays presents a more complex and positive view of Hawthorne's attitudes toward women, demonstrating his recognition of the crucial role that women played -- as critics, reviewers, readers, and authors -- in building a national readership that male his writing career so successful.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [300]-305) and index.

ISBN:

1558491740

1558491783

OCLC:

39300071