The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel HawthorneCambridge University Press, 5 de abr. de 2007 - 144 páginas As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style. Leland S. Person also explains some of the significant cultural and social movements that influenced Hawthorne's most important writings: Puritanism, Transcendentalism and Feminism. The major works, including The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, as well as Hawthorne's important short stories and non-fiction, are analysed in detail. The book also includes a brief history and survey of Hawthorne scholarship, with special emphasis on recent studies. Students of nineteenth-century American literature will find this a rewarding and engaging introduction to this remarkable writer. |
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... Brook Farm , a utopian community founded by George Ripley in West Roxbury , Massachusetts . In the interim , he wrote two books for children , Famous Old People and Liberty Tree , which , along with Grandfather's Chair , were published ...
... Brook Farm , a utopian community founded by George Ripley in West Roxbury , Massachusetts . In the interim , he wrote two books for children , Famous Old People and Liberty Tree , which , along with Grandfather's Chair , were published ...
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... Brook Farm not only pro- vided him with raw material ( in the form of notebook passages ) for The Blithedale Romance ... Brook Farmers wanted to liberate labor and laborers from conditions they regarded as virtual enslavement in order to ...
... Brook Farm not only pro- vided him with raw material ( in the form of notebook passages ) for The Blithedale Romance ... Brook Farmers wanted to liberate labor and laborers from conditions they regarded as virtual enslavement in order to ...
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... Brook Farm for good . Without employment , Hawthorne embarked upon several publishing projects , including the second edition of Twice - Told Tales and Biographical Stories for Children , while he planned for his marriage to Sophia . He ...
... Brook Farm for good . Without employment , Hawthorne embarked upon several publishing projects , including the second edition of Twice - Told Tales and Biographical Stories for Children , while he planned for his marriage to Sophia . He ...
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... Brook Farm (8: 371). One of the most remarkable events that occurred while the Hawthornes lived in Concord – especially important for its incorporation into The Blithedale Romance – involved the suicidal drowning of nineteen-year-old ...
... Brook Farm (8: 371). One of the most remarkable events that occurred while the Hawthornes lived in Concord – especially important for its incorporation into The Blithedale Romance – involved the suicidal drowning of nineteen-year-old ...
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Página 20 - Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or parcel of God.
Página 34 - When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume, had he professed to be writing a Novel.
Página 24 - She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.
Página 46 - There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children.
Página 60 - ... circles, towards a result which he did not attempt to foreshadow; and yet, strange to say, there came across him a sudden doubt whether this intense interest on his part were not delusory; whether it were really of so deep and positive a nature as to justify him in now thrusting himself...
Página 5 - Our objects, as you know, are to insure a more natural union between intellectual and manual labor than now exists; to combine the thinker and the worker, as far as possible, in the same individual; to guarantee the highest mental freedom by providing all with labor adapted to their tastes and talents, and securing to them the fruits of their industry...
Página 43 - Far more than this. It shall be yours to penetrate, in every bosom, the deep mystery of sin, the fountain of all wicked arts, and which inexhaustibly supplies more evil impulses than human power - than my power at its utmost - can make manifest in deeds.
Página 57 - She felt how much more precious was such a sentiment than that meaner kind which would have borne with the imperfection for her sake, and have been guilty of treason to holy love by degrading its perfect idea to the level of the actual; and with her whole spirit she prayed that, for a single moment, she might satisfy his highest and deepest conception.
Página 20 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.