Richard H. Millington (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herausgeber: Millington, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Hawthorne. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on Hawthornes classic works, and on topics such as Hawthornes relationship to history, to women, to politics, and to early America. This Companion brings together a team of leading international scholars to offer the most comprehensive introduction available to Hawthornes work and life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780521002042
• ISBN-10: 0521002044
• Artikelnr.: 22078436

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology of Hawthorne's life
Introduction Richard H. Millington
1. Hawthorne's labors in Concord Larry J. Reynolds
2. Hawthorne as cultural theorist Joel Pfister
3. Hawthorne and American masculinity T. Walter Herbert
4. Hawthorne and the question of women Alison Easton
5. Hawthorne, modernity, and the literary sketch Kristie Hamilton
6. Hawthorne's American history Gillian Brown
7. Hawthorne and the writing of childhood Karen Sanchez-Eppler
8. Love and politics, sympathy and justice in The Scarlet Letter Brook Thomas
9. The marvelous queer interiors of The House of the Seven Gables Christopher Castiglia
10. Sympathy and reform in The Blithedale Romance Robert S. Levine
11. Perplexity, sympathy, and the question of the human: a reading of The Marble Faun Emily Miller Budick
12. Whose Hawthorne? Gordon Hutner.