Description |
175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Note |
"A collection of essays assembled by Gordon Hyatt, project director, The Hawthorne Bicentennial."--Half-title page. |
Contents |
History: Hawthorne at home / Paul Auster -- Nineteenth-century Salem / Wendell Garrett -- The Peabody sisters of Salem / Peggy Styrong -- Henry David Thoreau, Hawthorne's Concord gardener / Laura L. Butters -- The novel and The house of the seven gables / Alexandria Mason -- Criticism: The scarlet letter / Louis Auchincloss -- Seduction and betrayal / Elizabeth Hardwick -- What Hawthorne meant to Melville / Harrison Hayford, updated by Hershel Parker -- A moonlight visibility : turning The scarlet letter into a play / Carol Gilligan -- The scarlet letter : movies and television / Neil Hickey -- Dimmesdale's ailment, Hawthorne's insight / M. Gerard Fromm -- Dido's curse : Hawthorne's unwilling radicalism / Michael T. Gilmore -- A heap of broken fragments : Hawthorne and politics / Brenda Wineapple -- Chiefly about war matters by a peaceable man / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Hawthorne as war correspondent / Tom Wicker. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Subject |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Anniversaries, etc.
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Authors, American -- Massachusetts.
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Added Author |
Scribner, David, editor.
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Auchincloss, Louis.
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ISBN |
1584653744 |
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9781584653745 |
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