New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales (The American Novel) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521428688 ISBN 13: 9780521428682

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales examines in detail some of Hawthorne's most important and most beloved stories such as Young Goodman Brown, Roger Malvin's Burial, The Minister's Black Veil, My Kinsman, Major Molineux, Rappaccini's Daughter, and Ethan Brand. The essayists make fresh attempts to probe the complex meaning of these much-discussed works, utilising a variety of topical critical methods. Millicent Bell's introduction analyses Hawthorne's early aspirations, places his writing in the context of contemporary audience expectations, and surveys the history of critical response to the tales from the writer's own time to our own.

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Book Description:

New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales examines in detail some of Hawthorne's most important and most beloved stories. The essayists make fresh attempts to probe the complex meaning of these much-discussed works, utilising a variety of topical critical methods.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521428688
• ISBN 13: 9780521428682
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165
• Editor: Bell Millicent, Elliott Emory