The entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne haunted minds and ambiguous approaches
Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the 'power of blackness' in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawtho...
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Boydell & Brewer
2011
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in American literature and culture
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The legacy of The scarlet letter: Hawthorne in contemporary culture
- Hawthorne as nineteenth-century morbid genius
- Biographical and critical veils in the nineteenth century
- Biographical visions of the twentieth century
- Entangled polarities: the new criticism
- Doubting dualisms: the strategies of Hawthorne's romance
- Ideological contexts: deconstructionism, feminism, the new historicism, race and entanglement