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9780195124132

A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne

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    9780195124132

  • ISBN10:

    0195124138

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-07-19
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography


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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(13)
Larry J. Reynolds
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864: A Brief Biography
13(36)
Brenda Wineapple
HAWTHORNE IN HIS TIME
Mysteries of Mesmerism: Hawthorne's Haunted House
49(30)
Samuel Chase Coale
Hawthorne and Children in the Nineteenth Century: Daughters, Flowers, Stories
79(30)
Gillian Brown
Hawthorne and the Visual Arts
109(26)
Rita K. Gollin
Hawthorne and the Slavery Question
135(30)
Jean Fagan Yellin
Illustrated Chronology 165(18)
Bibliographical Essay: Hawthorne and History 183(28)
Leland S. Person
Contributors 211(2)
Index 213

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