The house of the seven gables : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864, author.

Contributor:

Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-

Series:

Norton critical edition

A Norton critical edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. House of the seven gables.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

House of the seven gables (Hawthorne, Nathaniel).

Genre:

Occult fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xix, 481 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]

Summary:

"This Norton Critical Edition of The House of the Seven Gables provides readers with a definitive version of Hawthorne's 1851 novel, and a detailed resource for understanding the novel's resonance with Antebellum America. The story is about the generations of the Pyncheon family that have lived in the House of the Seven Gables, their ancestry, and their connection to the home. "Contexts" provides readers with historical background about early to mid-19th century American society and domesticity, allowing them to consider cultural beliefs that may have been important to Hawthorne's readers and to the period in which he was writing. "Criticism" includes contemporary, classic, and modern criticism of the novel, allowing readers to better understand how the novel was received in its time, as well as how its themes and characters are understood today. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Text of The House of the Seven Gables

Contexts

HISTORY

From Truth Held Forth and Maintained / Thomas Maule

From More Wonders of the Invisible World / Robert Calef

From Annals of Salem / Joseph B. Felt

From Lectures on Witchcraft / Charles W. Upham

From The American Note-Books / Nathaniel Hawthorne

HAWTHORNE AND THE LITERARY SKETCH

Alice Doane's Appeal / Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Old Apple-Dealer / Nathaniel Hawthorne

HOUSES

From The House I Live In / William Andrus Alcott

The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe

[American Country Houses] / Andrew Jackson Downing

[American Housekeepers] / Catharine E. Beecher

From The Great Lawsuit / Margaret Fuller

DAGUERREOTYPY AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

The Daguerreotype / Edgar Allan Poe

From Daguerreotypes / Anonymous

[Sea and Shore] / Ralph Waldo Emerson

From The Daguerreotypist / T. S. Arthur

[Our Photographic Process] / Frederick Douglass

Daguerreotype of an Unidentified Elderly Couple / Southworth & Hawes

[Animal Magnetism] / Charles Poyen

[Love Is the True Magnetism] / Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Prison Discipline] / Charles Dickens

[Railroads] / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Criticism

CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES

From Letter to Horatio Bridge, March 15, 1851 / Nathaniel Hawthorne

Letter to Hawthorne, [April 16,] 1851 / Herman Melville

From Letter to Mrs. K. S. Minot, May 4, 1851 / Catharine Maria Sedgwick

[Grand Historical Picture] / Anonymous

[Cornelius Agrippa] / Evert Augustus Duyckinck

[Hawthorne's Greatest Work] / Edwin Percy Whipple

[Sketches of Still-Life] / Henry T. Tuckerman

[A Succession of Rembrandt Pictures] / Harriet Beecher Stowe

SELECTIONS FROM CLASSIC STUDIES

[A Ghastly Spirit of Drollery] / Anthony Trollope

[The House of the Seven Gables] / Henry James

[Dim, Forlorn Wraiths] / William Dean Howells

[Vacuum Cleaner] / D. H. Lawrence

[Energy of Disease] / F. O. Matthiessen

[Imperfect Repression] / Frederick C. Crews

[Double Exposures] / Richard H. Brodhead

[Mirror with a Memory] / Eric J. Sundquist

[The Marketplace] / Michael T. Gilmore

[Property Rights] / Walter Benn Michaels

[Home Business] / Gillian Brown

RECENT CRITICISM

From Home, in the Better Sense: The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of Interests / Amy Schrager Lang

From The Marvelous Queer Interiors of The House of the Seven Gables / Christopher Castiglia

The Heroine of The House of the Seven Gables; or, Who Killed Jaffrey Pyncheon? / Nina Baym

Genealogical Fictions: Race in The House of the Seven Gables and Pierre / Robert S. Levine

From The Transformation of American Family Property in The House of the Seven Gables / Holly Jackson

The House of the Seven Gables as Daguerreian Romance / Marcy J. Dinius

Needing the Deed: Hawthorne, Locke, and Native Lands in Maine / Mark Rifkin

The Discharged Convict in The House of the Seven Gables / Carl Ostrowski

The Missing Window: Caroline Emmerton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The House of the Seven Gables / William Gleason.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780393679465

0393679462

OCLC:

1126347572