Author: Sarah Bird Wright
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108532
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. This reference also provides entries on Hawthorne's family, friends - ranging from Herman Melville to President Franklin Pierce - publishers, and critics.
Critical Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Sarah Bird Wright
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108532
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. This reference also provides entries on Hawthorne's family, friends - ranging from Herman Melville to President Franklin Pierce - publishers, and critics.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108532
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. This reference also provides entries on Hawthorne's family, friends - ranging from Herman Melville to President Franklin Pierce - publishers, and critics.
Student Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Melissa McFarland Pennell
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Features a biographical chapter that relates Hawthorne's life to his work, a chapter on his career and contributions to American literature, and chapters that analyze his most important short stories and novels in turn.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Features a biographical chapter that relates Hawthorne's life to his work, a chapter on his career and contributions to American literature, and chapters that analyze his most important short stories and novels in turn.
Hawthorne and Melville
Author: Jana L. Argersinger
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327518
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820327518
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Critical Essays on Hawthorne's Short Stories
Author: Albert J. Von Frank
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Grandfather's Chair
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Critical Companion to Herman Melville
Author: Carl Edmund Rollyson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108478
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108478
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Critical Companion to Herman Melville examines the life and work of a writer who spent much of his career in obscurity.
Critical Companion to Henry James
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438117272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438117272
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Examines the life and writings of Henry James including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, biographies of friends and family, and social and historical influences.
Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Dawn B. Sova
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.
Gothic Literature
Author: Jessica Bomarito
Publisher: Gale Critical Companion
ISBN: 9780787694708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume, covering entries from "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu" to "Oscar Wilde," includes a primary sources section written by the featured author, overviews of the author's career and general studies, and in-depth analyses of seminal works by the author.
Publisher: Gale Critical Companion
ISBN: 9780787694708
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume, covering entries from "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu" to "Oscar Wilde," includes a primary sources section written by the featured author, overviews of the author's career and general studies, and in-depth analyses of seminal works by the author.
Critical Companion to Arthur Miller
Author: Susan C. W. Abbotson
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Arthur Miller, best known for his works The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, is one of America's most important dramatists.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108389
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
Arthur Miller, best known for his works The Crucible and Death of a Salesman, is one of America's most important dramatists.