Hawthorne, Melville, and the American character : a looking-glass business
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Hawthorne, Melville, and the American character : a looking-glass business
（Cambridge studies in American literature and culture）
Cambridge University Press, 1985
- : pbk
Available at 30 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
hbk版(first published 1984)は別書誌<BA00286166>
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book considers the portrayal of the American national character in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville. It examines Hawthorne's abiding concern with the development of New England from colony to province to republic, and analyses Melville's changing evocation of 'the new American', and the difficulties he faced in sustaining his heady nationalistic faith.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: tomorrow's American
- Part I. Hawthorne: 1. John Endicott and the fictions of oratory
- 2. Narrower souls
- 3. The Puritan revolution of 1755
- 4. A diminished thing
- 5. Broken lines
- Part II. Melville: 6. Distrust in confidence
- 7. Mirror men
- 8. Confidence in distrust
- 9. True bridge of sighs
- Conclusion: floating at will
- Notes
- Index.
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