Hawthorne in the Americas: Frances Calderón de la Barca, Octavio Paz, and the Mexican Genealogy of "Rappaccini's Daughter"

"Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844) is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most famous and most frequently taught short fictions. In it Hawthorne distances himself from what he earlier called "the tottering infancy of our literature"; he boldly attaches his tale instead to the vene...

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