A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne / Edition 1

by Larry J. Reynolds

Overview

Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most widely read and taught of American authors. This Historical Guide collects a number of original essays by Hawthorne scholars that place the author in historical context. Like other volumes in the series, A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographical essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, this volume addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Hawthorne's work, including his relationship to slavery, children, mesmerism, and the visual arts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195124149
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/19/2001
Series:	Historical Guides to American Authors
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 5.30(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1510L (what's this?)

About the Author

Larry J. Reynolds is Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayon Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. He is a former President of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and is currently the Executive Secretary of the Margaret Fuller Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Larry J. Reynolds1. Marble and Mud: A Biographical Sketch, Brenda Wineapple2. Mysteries of Mesmerism: Hawthorne's Haunted House, Samuel Coale3. Hawthorne and Children in the Nineteenth Century: Daughters, Flowers, Stories, Gillian Brown4. Hawthorne and the Visual Arts, Rita K. Gollin5. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Slavery Question, Jean Fagan Yellin6. Illustrated Chronology7. Hawthorne and History: A Bibliographical Essay, Leland S. PersonContributorsIndex