| Description |
191 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The Greenhaven Press literary companion to American authors
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-185) and index. |
| Contents |
Nathaniel Hawthorne : a biography -- Stories derived from New England living / Edmund Fuller and B. Jo Kinnick -- The divided artist and his uncles / Gloria C. Erlich -- Hawthorne's Puritan mind / Stanley T. Williams -- The social criticism of a public man / Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, and E. Hudson Long -- Hawthorne ranks high among American authors / Jay B. Hubbell -- A skeptic incompatible with his time and his past / Henry Seidel Canby -- The wisdom of Hawthorne's blackness / Herman Melville -- Hawthorne's use of mythology / Hugh McPherson -- Finding a voice in a new nation / Peter Conn -- Hawthorne's struggle with method / Charles Feidelson, Jr. -- The development of Hawthorne's romanticism / Morse Peckham -- Hawthorne's female characters / Randall Stewart -- Twice-told tales : a blend of stories / Roy Harvey Pearce -- Hawthorne's tales of brevity and effect / Edgar Allan Poe -- Three masterpieces in Twice-told tales / Neal Frank Doubleday -- The house of the seven gables captures the atmosphere of old Salem / Van Wyck Brooks -- The past revisits the present in The house of the seven gables / Rita K. Gollin -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's "second-best book" / Mark Van Doren -- The ambiguity of The scarlet letter / Richard Chase -- Old and new worlds in The scarlet letter / Michael Davitt Bell -- Color and light images in The scarlet letter / Hyatt Howe Waggoner -- History, art, and wisdom in The scarlet letter / Randall Stewart and Dorothy Bethurum. |
| Subject |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Swisher, Clarice, 1933-
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| Added Title |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN |
1565104595 |
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1565104587 (pbk.) |
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