Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Name: Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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ISBN: 9780521002042

ISBN-10: 0521002044

ISBN-13: 9780521002042

Edition: 2004

Authors: Richard H. Millington

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The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne's fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies today. In newly commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne's writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essays explore Hawthorne's art in relation to a stimulating array of issues and approaches. The essays reveal how Hawthorne's work explores understandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood and selfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity.…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/23/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Chronology of Hawthorne's life


Introduction




Hawthorne's labors in Concord Larry




Hawthorne as cultural theorist




Hawthorne and American masculinity




Hawthorne and the question of women




Hawthorne, modernity, and the literary sketch




Hawthorne's American history




Hawthorne and the writing of childhood




Love and politics, sympathy and justice in The Scarlet Letter




The marvelous queer interiors of The House of the Seven Gables




Sympathy and reform in The Blithedale Romance




Perplexity, sympathy, and the question of the human: a reading of The Marble




Whose Hawthorne?