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Nathaniel Hawthorne / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bloom's modern critical views
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 260 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Chelsea House, [2007]
- Summary:
- A key figure in the development of American literature, nineteenth-century novelist and short-story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne is perhaps best known for his novels The Scarlet Letter, The Marble Faun, and The House of the Seven Gables. Also among his major achievements are numerous stories including "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," "Young Goodman Brown," and "The Minister's Black Veil." Hawthorne, perhaps more so than any other writer of his time, continued in the English literary tradition while taking as his subject the early history of New England. His fiction treated a variety of themes and often explored the hidden motivations of his characters.
- Contents:
- The artists of the novels: Coverdale, Holgrave, Kenyon / Millicent Bell
- Homely witchcraft / Frederick C. Crews
- "The scribbler of bygone days": perceptions of time in Hawthorne's "custom-house" / Jane Donahue Eberwein
- "The dead live again": Hawthorne's palingenic art / David C.Cody
- Intercourse with the world: the Blithedale romance / Edwin Haviland Miller
- The romance of mesmerism: Hawthorne's medium of romance / Samuel Coale
- Narrative transformations of romanticism / Michael Dunne
- "That look beneath": Hawthorne's portrait of benevolence in The house of the seven gables / Joseph Flibbert
- The tongue of flame / Dan McCall
- Hawthorne's "mad, merry stream of human life": the Roman carnival as apocalypse in The marble faun / David B. Kesterson
- A poem by Lowell / Richard Kopley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791093158
- 9780791093153
- OCLC:
- 71369387
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