Salem is My Dwelling Place

Salem is My Dwelling Place
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Total Pages : 656
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015022276631
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Synopsis Salem is My Dwelling Place by : Edwin Haviland Miller

An account of Hawthorne's life and works using unpublished manuscripts of his family members and associates.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0674035747
ISBN-13 : 9780674035744
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Scarlet Letter by : Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawthorne’s greatest romance is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his Introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that it is also a serious historical novel. This edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Scarlet Letter in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Hawthorne and Melville

Hawthorne and Melville
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 0820327514
ISBN-13 : 9780820327518
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Hawthorne and Melville by : Jana L. Argersinger

Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive tools such as queer theory, globalist studies, political and social ideology, marketplace analysis, psychoanalytical and philosophical applications to literature, masculinist theory, and critical studies of race, the twelve essays in this book focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between the two writers. Jana L. Argersinger and Leland S. Person introduce the volume with a lively summary of the known biographical facts of the two writers’ relationship and an overview of the relevant scholarship to date. Some of the essays that follow broach the possibility of sexual dimensions to the relationship, a question that “looms like a grand hooded phantom” over the field of Melville-Hawthorne studies. Questions of influence--Hawthorne’s on Moby-Dick and Pierre and Melville’s on The Blithedale Romance, to mention only the most obvious instances--are also discussed. Other topics covered include professional competitiveness; Melville’s search for a father figure; masculine ambivalence in the marketplace; and political-literary aspects of nationalism, transcendentalism, race, and other defining issues of Hawthorne and Melville’s times. Roughly half of the essays focus on biographical issues; the others take literary perspectives. The essays are informed by a variety of critical approaches, as well as by new historical insights and new understandings of the possibilities that existed for male friendships in nineteenth-century American culture.

Melville

Melville
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9780307831712
ISBN-13 : 030783171X
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis Melville by : Andrew Delbanco

If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan — an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville’s life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.

Merry-mount

Merry-mount
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Total Pages : 516
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044023790678
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Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Merry-mount by : John Lothrop Motley

Who's Who in Christianity

Who's Who in Christianity
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 9780415260343
ISBN-13 : 0415260345
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Who's Who in Christianity by : Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok

An A-Z guide to persons from Eastern and Western Christian churches, from Jesus of Galilee and Paul of Tarsus to Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa.

Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne

Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne
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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9780817314989
ISBN-13 : 0817314989
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne by : Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne

An annotated selection of unpublished letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister. Retrieved from seven different libraries, this corpus of letters was preserved by the Manning family chiefly for their value as records of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work; but they ironically also illuminate the life and mind of a fascinating correspondent and citizen of New England with incisive views and commentaries on her contemporaries, her role as a woman writer, Boston and Salem literary culture, and family life in mid-19th-century America. This book illuminates Elizabeth's early life; the trauma caused for sister and brother by the death of their father; her and her brother's education; and the tensions the two children experienced when they moved in with their mother's family, the welthier Mannings, instead of the poorer though socially more venerable Hawthornes, following their father's death. The letters portray Elizabeth's constrained relationship with Nathaniel's wife Sofia Peabody and counter Sophia's portrayal of her sister-in-law as a recluse, oddity, and "queer scribbler." These 118 letters also reveal Elizabeth Hawthorne's tremendous gifts as a thinker, correspondent, and essayist, her interest in astronomy, a lifelong drive toward self-edification in many fields, and her extraordinary relationship with Nathaniel. As a sibling and a fellow author, they were sometimes lovingly codependent and sometimes competitive. Finally, her writing reveals the larger worlds of politics, war, the literary landscape, class, family life, and the freedoms and constraints of a woman's role, all by a heretofore understudied figure.

Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim

Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 9780820343358
ISBN-13 : 0820343358
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim by : Meg McGavran Murray

“How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller,” the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child. “What does it mean?” Filled with new insights into the causes and consequences of Fuller’s lifelong psychic conflict, this biography chronicles the journey of an American Romantic pilgrim as she wanders from New England into the larger world--and then back home under circumstances that Fuller herself likened to those of both the prodigal child of the Bible and Oedipus of Greek mythology. Meg McGavran Murray discusses Fuller’s Puritan ancestry, her life as the precocious child of a preoccupied, grieving mother and of a tyrannical father who took over her upbringing, her escape from her loveless home into books, and the unorthodox--and influential--male and female role models to which her reading exposed her. Murray also covers Fuller’s authorship of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, her career as a New-York Tribune journalist first in New York and later in Rome, her pregnancy out of wedlock, her witness of the fall of Rome in 1849 during the Roman Revolution, and her return to the land of her birth, where she knew she would be received as an outcast. Other biographies call Fuller a Romantic. Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim illustrates how Fuller internalized the lives of the heroes and heroines in the ancient and modern Romantic literature that she had read as a child and adolescent, as well as how she used her Romantic imagination to broaden women’s roles in Woman in the Nineteenth Century, even as she wandered the earth in search of a home.

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences

Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 539
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ISBN-10 : 9780313096679
ISBN-13 : 0313096678
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences by : John Powell

Over the past two decades, the process of cultural development and, in particular, the role of reading has been of growing interest, but recent research has been episodic and idiosyncratic. In this biographical dictionary, research devoted specifically to the reading habits of 19th century individuals who shaped Western culture is brought together for the first time. While giving prominent coverage to literary and political figures, the volume's 270 entries also include musicians, painters, educators, and explorers. Each entry includes brief biographical information, a concise summary of literary influences on the subject, and clear direction for further research. The book provides a practical tool for scholars wishing to trace the reading experience of important Western cultural figures. Subjects were selected from the people most responsible for the cultural development of Europe, Britain and the British Empire, and the Americas between 1800 and 1914. Although selective, the sample of 270 figures is substantial enough to suggest broad, cross-cultural habits and effects, enabling scholars to better understand the relationship between reading and culture. In an introductory essay, Powell explores the patterns and relationships that can be discerned from the entries. The first of three anticipated volumes, the book is an important step forward in researching the role of reading in cultural development.

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781611476538
ISBN-13 : 1611476534
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Immigration, Ethnicity, and Class in American Writing, 1830–1860 by : Leonardo Buonomo

This book examines the close relationship between the portrayal of foreigners and the delineation of culture and identity in antebellum American writing. Both literary and historical in its approach, this study shows how, in a period marked by extensive immigration, heated debates on national and racial traits, during a flowering in American letters, encouraged responses from American authors to outsiders that not only contain precious insights into nineteenth-century America’s self-construction but also serve to illuminate our own time’s multicultural societies. The authors under consideration are alternately canonical (Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville), recently rediscovered (Kirkland), or simply neglected (Arthur). The texts analyzed cover such different genres as diaries, letters, newspapers, manuals, novels, stories, and poems.