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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459860703321

Autore

Milder Robert

Titolo

Hawthorne's habitations : a literary life

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2013

ISBN

0-19-931149-8

0-19-025290-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 295 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill

Disciplina

813/.3

Soggetti

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Mood (Psychology) in literature

Melancholy in literature

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This literary/biographical study of Nathaniel Hawthorne's full career presents a self-divided man and writer strongly attracted to reality for its own sake and remarkably adept at rendering it yet fearful of the nothingness he intuited at its heart. Making use of Hawthorne's notebooks and letters as well as nearly all of his important fiction, this biography distinguishes between 'two Hawthornes', then maps them onto the physical and cultural locales that were formative for Hawthorne's character and work: Salem, Massachusetts; Concord, Massachusetts; England; and Italy.