Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorn, Melville and Poe: Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel

by Gary Richard Thompson, G.R. Thompson, Virgil Lokke, Editor

A recurrent idea in Darrel Abel's criticism of the works of Hawthorne gives this volume its title. The idea of a fallen world and its potential for partial redemption through art and the art of criticism is a theme that weaves in and out of the sixteen essays. The volume as a whole displays an explicit and implicit concern with critical approaches and reflects an awareness of the fictiveness of critical resolutions in a world in which boundaries are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0911198601
• ISBN13: 9780911198607
• Release Date: June 1981
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"