The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches

by Samuel Chase Coale and Samuel Coale

The process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the "power of blackness" in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawthorne had already been accepted into the American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571133631
• ISBN13: 9781571133632
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"