Dearest Beloved - The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family

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About the author

T. Walter Herbert is University Scholar and Brown Professor of English at Southwestern University. He is the author of Moby-Dick and Calvinism: A World Dismantled (1977) and Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the Meaning of Civilization (1980).

Summary

The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness, was also a scene of revulsion and combat. This book reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment.

Product details

• Authors: T. Walter Herbert, T.Walter Herbert, Walter T. Herbert, Herbert T. Walter
• Assisted by: T. Walter Herbert (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.1995
• EAN: 9780520201552
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20155-2
• No. of pages: 331
• Series: New Historicism: Studies in Cu; The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics; New Historicism: Studies in Cu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, American English, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Sociology: family & relationships, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Sociology: family and relationships, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form