Author: Millicent Bell
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814209866
Category : Literature and society
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Hawthorne was, with his own complicity, long described as a writer of unreal romances (as he preferred to call his novels) or "allegories of the heart" as he termed some of his short stories. The essays in this collection contribute to the turn in recent Hawthorne criticism which shows how deeply implicated in realism his writing was."--BOOK JACKET.