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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 280
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The Blithedale Romance (1852) is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. Its setting is a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries. In Hawthorne (1879), Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions," while literary critic Richard Brodhead has described it as "the darkest of Hawthorne's novels.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
The Blithedale Romance (1852) is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. Its setting is a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel dramatizes the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries. In Hawthorne (1879), Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions," while literary critic Richard Brodhead has described it as "the darkest of Hawthorne's novels.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 202
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"The Blithedale Romance" is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is the third major "romance," set in a utopian farming commune based on Brook Farm, of which Hawthorne was a founding member and where he lived in 1841. The novel centers on the conflict between the commune's ideals and the members' private desires and romantic rivalries.
Author: David B. Diamond Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000408779 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 202
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Offering innovative, psychoanalytic readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s mature novels, this volume expertly applies Freudian theory to present new insights into the psychology of Hawthorne’s characters and their fates. By critically examining scenes in which protagonists confront past traumas, Diamond underscores the transformative potential which Hawthorne attributes to confrontations with the unconscious. Psychoanalytic narrative technique is used to illuminate psychological crises of the protagonists in The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun, showing the transformations they undergo to be central to our understanding of the trajectory and resolution of Hawthorne’s romances. The text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in applied psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic technique, and Freud in particular. Since its conclusions challenge many currently held critical views, this volume is especially relevant to those interested in interdisciplinary literary studies, Hawthorne studies, 19th century literature and romanticism.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101077808 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 481
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The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
Author: Jana L. Argersinger Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820327518 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 396
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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.
Author: Lydia Maria Child Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 162
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Hobomok is a novel by author and human rights campaigner Lydia Maria Child. It relates the marriage of a white American woman, Mary Conant, to a Native American husband and her attempt to raise their son in white society.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 224
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"The Blithedale Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel of intrigue and mystery, set in post-colonial Massachusetts. The story tells of Mr. Miles Coverdale's involvement with the community at Blithedale, especially with the mystery surrounding two of the women there, Zenobia and Priscilla. "The Blithedale Romance" is a very interesting novel that reveals the secrets that exist, even within a very small society.The night before Coverdale goes to Blithedale, Mr. Moodie stops him in the street for a favor, but he changes his mind and refuses to reveal his purpose. In Blithedale, Coverdale meets Zenobia, and Hollingsworth arrives later that night with Priscilla who clings to Zenobia. When Coverdale gets sick, Hollingsworth cares for him, trying to convert him to his philanthropic purposes, and the two men become friends. The mystery surrounding the individual pasts of Zenobia and Priscilla perplex Coverdale. The community at Blithedale learns how to farm and becomes quite adept at the art of husbandry. Hollingsworth and Zenobia begin to court, often frequenting a sloping hill on the farm where they plan to build their residence, according to neighborhood gossip. Mr. Moodie visits to check on Priscilla and seems very interested and intent on learning the details of the friendship between Priscilla and Zenobia. Westervelt arrives at Blithedale and introduces himself to Zenobia, sharing secrets about Priscilla that leave Zenobia very discomposed. One afternoon, Zenobia tells "The Silvery Veil", a legend about the Veiled Lady, frightening Priscilla by throwing a piece of gossamer over Priscilla's head at the end of the tale. As the relationship between Hollingsworth and Zenobia progresses, Priscilla seems saddened by it, and Coverdale begins to suspect that Priscilla loves Hollingsworth. When Coverdale refuses to join Hollingsworth's philanthropic schemes, Hollingsworth, Zenobia and Priscilla begin to treat him differently.Coverdale leaves Blithedale and boards at a respectable hotel in town where he watches the inhabitants in the boarding-house across the streets. One day, Coverdale sees Zenobia in the boarding-house with Westervelt; he later visits her and Priscilla, but Zenobia is rude to him, and she and Priscilla leave with Westervelt. Curious about Priscilla, Coverdale seeks out Moodie and learns about Moodie's past as Fauntleroy, including that both Zenobia and Priscilla are his daughters. Several weeks later, Coverdale goes to an interview with the Veiled Lady where he encounters Hollingsworth. The Veiled Lady throws back her veil, revealing herself to be Priscilla, and leaves with Hollingsworth as though he is a refuge of safety. Coverdale returns to Blithedale and encounters Hollingsworth, Zenobia and Priscilla at Eliot's Pulpit in the midst of an intense conversation. Hollingsworth admits to Zenobia that he loves Priscilla, and then, he and Priscilla leave together. After sobbing inconsolably, Zenobia sends messages to Hollingsworth and Priscilla through Coverdale before bidding him goodbye. Coverdale sleeps, dreams, and wakes with the suspicion that Zenobia committed suicide. He wakes Hollingsworth and Silas Foster, and the three men search the river for Zenobia's body. They find and bury Zenobia's corpse. Years later, Coverdale cannot forgive Hollingsworth for his part in Zenobia's death, so he visits him old friend to find that Hollingsworth is very unhappy and condemns himself as Zenobia's murderer. Embarrassed, Coverdale confesses that he loves Priscilla.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Publisher: ISBN: 9781080956326 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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Set on a communal farm called Blithedale, "The Blithedale Romance" is the story of four inhabitants of the commune: Hollingsworth, a misogynist philanthropist obsessed with turning Blithedale into a colony for the reformation of criminals; Zenobia, a passionate feminist; Priscilla, who turns out to be Zenobia's half-sister; and Miles Coverdale, the narrator of the story. The story concerns the freindship of the four at the commune, which starts intensely during the spring and summer but as autumn approaches begins to disintegrate towards a tragic end. A classic of American literature, "The Blithedale Romance" is a compelling narrative set against the backdrop of many important social and political issues of the 19th century.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: David B. Diamond
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Henry James
Author: Jana L. Argersinger
Author: Lydia Maria Child
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne