Hawthorne Revisited: Honoring the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth - Couverture rigide

 
9781584653745: Hawthorne Revisited: Honoring the Bicentennial of the Author's Birth
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ISBN 10 : 1584653744 ISBN 13 : 9781584653745
Editeur : University Press of New England, 2004

Synopsis

Two hundred years after his birth, Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of America's most important and influential writers. To celebrate that bicentennial, this new collection gathers essays by novelists, critics, historians, and biographers that explore aspects of Hawthorne's life and work. It is published by the Lenox Library in Lenox, Massachusetts, the Berkshire town where Hawthorne spent two productive years and where he formed his friendship with Herman Melville. The essays here range from Louis Auchincloss and Elizabeth Hardwick on The Scarlet Letter to Paul Auster on Hawthorne's journals and what they reveal about his family life; from Harrison Hayford's previously unpublished exploration of Hawthorne's influence on Melville to Carol Gilligan's attempts to adapt Hawthorne's work for the stage; from Wendell Garrett's evocation of nineteenth-century Salem to a sample of Hawthorne's own journalism - "Chiefly About War Matters by a Peaceable Man," written for The Atlantic Monthly in 1862. Also in this volume, curators of Hawthorne historical sites explore the influence of physical environment on the writer; biographer Brenda Wineapple examines the author's political views, including his controversial disdain of abolitionists; journalist and novelist Tom Wicker offers an appraisal of Hawthorne's skills as a war correspondent; and journalist Neil Hickey considers the author's ongoing cultural influence through film and television adaptations of his work. This illustrated volume will also feature a range of visual materials, including original, full-page silhouettes in a nineteenth century style by artist Pamela Dalton.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Scribner is editor of the Berkshire Eagle. Designed by Jane McWhorter, Project Director and Executive Editor, Gordon Hyatt.

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Éditeur
University Press of New England
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1584653744
ISBN 13 
9781584653745
Reliure
Relié
Illustrateur
Dalton Pamela
Nombre de pages
160
Éditeur
Scribner David
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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