Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Larry J. Reynolds, Larry J. (Professor of English Reynolds
• Assisted by: Larry J. Reynolds (Editor), Larry J. (Professor of English Reynolds (Editor), Reynolds Larry J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780195124132
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512413-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Historical Guides to American Authors; Historical Guides to American; Historical Guides to American Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form