| Description | | - Vividly situates Hawthorne in his historical context
- Assembles original essays by some of the foremost scholars of Hawthorne
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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.
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| Contents |
Introduction
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Larry J. Reynolds
1.
Marble and Mud: A Biographical Sketch
,
Brenda Wineapple
2.
Mysteries of Mesmerism: Hawthorne's Haunted House
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Samuel Coale
3.
Hawthorne and Children in the Nineteenth Century: Daughters, Flowers, Stories
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Gillian Brown
4.
Hawthorne and the Visual Arts
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Rita K. Gollin
5.
Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Slavery Question
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Jean Fagan Yellin
6.
Illustrated Chronology
7.
Hawthorne and History: A Bibliographical Essay
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Leland S. Person
Contributors
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Edited by Larry J. Reynolds, Professor of English, and Thomas Franklin Mayon Professor of Liberal Arts, Texas A & M University
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