Dearest beloved : the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family / / T. Walter Herbert [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Herbert T. Walter (Thomas Walter), <1938->
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| Titolo: |
Dearest beloved : the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family / / T. Walter Herbert [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1993 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xx, 331 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 813/.3 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Domestic fiction, American - History and criticism |
| Novelists, American - 19th century | |
| Authors' spouses - United States | |
| Psychoanalysis and literature | |
| Middle class in literature | |
| Marriage in literature | |
| Family in literature | |
| Note generali: | "A Centennial book" |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Critical Vortex -- 1. Indices of a Problem -- 2. Zenobia's Ghost -- Part II: Numinous Mates -- Introduction -- 3. The Queen of All She Surveys -- 4. Portrait of the Artist as a Self-Made Man -- 5. Subservient Angel -- 6. Democratic Mythmaking in The House of the Seven Gables -- Part III: Marital Politics -- Introduction -- 7. Inward and Eternal Union -- 8. Transplanting the Garden of Eden -- 9. Androgynous Paradise Lost -- 10. Soul-System in Salem -- 11. Double Marriage, Double Adultery -- 12. Domesticity as Redemption -- Part IV: Roman Fever -- 13. City of the Soul -- 14. Repudiations and Inward War -- 15. The Lions of Lust -- 16. Spiritual Laws -- 17. The Poet as Patriarch -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne-for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness-was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dearest beloved |
| ISBN: | 0-520-91656-5 |
| 0-585-16122-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910495956203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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New historicism ; ; 24.