Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal, 1977
Author | : C. E. Frazer Clark |
Publisher | : Gale / Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810309265 |
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Author | : C. E. Frazer Clark |
Publisher | : Gale / Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780810309265 |
Author | : C. E. Frazer Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1983-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780810309296 |
Author | : Brenda Wineapple |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2012-01-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307808661 |
Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said. Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow. In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner and Gertrude and Leo Stein (“Luminous”–Richard Howard), brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls. Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual. Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time. Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthorne’s fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit.
Author | : C. E. Frazer Clark |
Publisher | : Bruccoli-Clark Layman |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 1973-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780910972390 |
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 1438113358 |
A collection of critical essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne's work.
Author | : Luther S. Luedtke |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1989-09-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253336132 |
This volume argues that by focusing on British and American backgrounds, readers have underestimated the impact of Asia and "the East" on American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804-1864) writing. The central force in Hawthorne's intellectual development was New England Puritanism. It fascinated even when it sometimes repelled him. It exercised a pull on his imagination which a lifetime of varied experience did not loosen. The author recreates Hawthorne's heritage and examine his readings in material dealing with the East; he examines three of Hawthorne's "early tales" that were all written before 1830; and he looks at Hawthorne's "The Story Teller", the two-volume book of sketches and tales Hawthorne unsuccessfully tried to publish in 1834 and issued piecemeal thereafter in periodicals as annuals. The author also evaluates the role of the Eastern world in Hawthorne's view of Romance and studies some of Hawthorne's "remarkable" heroines -- Beatrice Rapaccini, Hester, Zenobia, and Miriam in particular. The author maintains that the Puritan element in Hawthorne's ancestry has been overstressed and that insufficient attention has been paid to the equally important travel-adventure-exploration aspect of Hawthorne's heritage and craft.
Author | : Magnus Ullén |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783039102006 |
This book takes issue with the tendency in twentieth-century Hawthorne-criticism to blur the distinction between symbolism and allegory. Rejecting the long-standing notion that Hawthorne is a symbolist in allegorical disguise, Ullén argues that allegory is the key to understanding how religion, sexuality, aesthetics and politics are interwoven in Hawthorne's writings. The study presents a model for allegorical interpretation of general applicability, which is brought to bear on each of Hawthorne's mature romances, and on the oft-neglected Wonder Books written for children. An unparalleled analysis of the formal intricacies of Hawthorne's writings, this book is an eloquent plea for the necessity of grounding ideological analysis in aesthetical considerations.