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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Published: 1882

Total Pages: 412

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The Blithedale Romance Illustrated
The Blithedale Romance Illustrated

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-15

Total 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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author: Milton Meltzer

Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books

Published: 2006-08-01

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0761334599

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Learn about the life of the famous American author.

The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author: Leland S. Person

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-04-05

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1139462296

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As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style. Leland S. Person also explains some of the significant cultural and social movements that influenced Hawthorne's most important writings: Puritanism, Transcendentalism and Feminism. The major works, including The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, as well as Hawthorne's important short stories and non-fiction, are analysed in detail. The book also includes a brief history and survey of Hawthorne scholarship, with special emphasis on recent studies. Students of nineteenth-century American literature will find this a rewarding and engaging introduction to this remarkable writer.