A historical guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A historical guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
（Historical guides to American authors）
Oxford University Press, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-209) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Larry J. Reynolds: Introduction
1: Brenda Wineapple: Marble and Mud: A Biographical Sketch
2: Samuel Coale: Mysteries of Mesmerism: Hawthorne's Haunted House
3: Gillian Brown: Hawthorne and Children in the Nineteenth Century: Daughters, Flowers, Stories
4: Rita K. Gollin: Hawthorne and the Visual Arts
5: Jean Fagan Yellin: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Slavery Question
6: Illustrated Chronology
7: Leland S. Person: Hawthorne and History: A Bibliographical Essay
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