A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
1st Edition
Published on 19. July 2001
232 pages
978-0-19-972804-6 (ISBN)
Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most widely read and taught of American authors. This Historical Guide collects a number of original essays by Hawthorne scholars that place the author in historical context. Like other volumes in the series, A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographical essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, this volume addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Hawthorne's work, including his relationship to slavery, children, mesmerism, and the visual arts.
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Larry J. Reynolds
A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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08/2001
Oxford University Press
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Larry J. Reynolds
A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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08/2001
Oxford University Press
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Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is a former President of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and is currently the Executive Secretary of the Margaret Fuller Society.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864: A Brief Biography
- HAWTHORNE IN HIS TIME
- Mysteries of Mesmerism: Hawthorne's Haunted House
- Hawthorne and Children in the Nineteenth Century: Daughters, Flowers, Stories
- Hawthorne and the Visual Arts
- Hawthorne and the Slavery Question
- Illustrated Chronology
- Bibliographical Essay: Hawthorne and History
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
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