Recently added articles from Nathaniel Hawthorne Review:
From the editor's gable.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; ... My thanks go out to all those who helped me during the first months of my editorship. I am most grateful to Mary C. English, Professor in the Montclair State Classics and Humanities Department, whose advice to me was invaluable and without whom this breaking-in period would have been far ...
A man for the whole country: marketing masculinity in the Pierce biography.(The Life of Franklin Pierce)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Person, Leland S. ... The political campaigns we have endured over the past decade offer an inviting context for examining Hawthorne's 1852 campaign biography, The Life of Franklin Pierce, as if it were fiction. Early reviewers did so. The Salem Register entitled its review "Hawthorne's New Romance" (Idol 227), ...
Fallen angels: Sophia Hawthorne's Cuba Journal as Piece de Resistance.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Scholl, Diane G. ... While Nathaniel Hawthorne's attitude toward slavery has been deemed contradictory by scholars, who note his sympathetic Notebook observations on African-Americans and slaves, yet condemn his legendary avoidance of what he regarded as the political extremism of abolitionism, (1) less of an ...
"Sensitive emulsions: Hawthorne's proto-photography".(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Smith, Andy ... In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1838 tale "Foot-prints on the Sea-shore," the narrator walks along a New England seashore, marveling at the sun, the sand, and the surf, as well as the occasional stranger. He is particularly interested in the borders where physical elements intersect, noting: ...
"Looking into their inmost nature": the speculum and sexual selection in "Rappaccini's daughter".(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; Medoro, Dana ... "He does not meddle with Truth & it lays upon him like the blessed sunshine, full & broad. No microscopes nor burning glasses, nor any of those impertinent little dividers & dissectors nor large magnifiers disturb its serene wholeness." (Sophia Hawthorne on Nathaniel, in their ...
Weldon, Roberta. Hawthorne, Gender, and Death: Christianity and Its Discontents.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Gollin, Rita ... Weldon, Roberta. Hawthorne, Gender, and Death: Christianity and Its Discontents. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 203 pp. cloth, $74.95. Roberta Weldon's fusion of structuralist, feminist, mythic, and religious theory brings a considerable density of concern to issues raised ...
Courtmanche, Jason Charles. How Nathaniel Hawthorne's Narratives Are Shaped by Sin: His Use of Biblical Typology in His Four Major Novels.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Idol, John ... Courtmanche, Jason Charles. How Nathaniel Hawthorne's Narratives Are Shaped by Sin: His Use of Biblical Typology in His Four Major Novels. Lewiston, NY. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. 254 pp. cloth, $97.95. As heir to Puritan culture and beliefs, Nathaniel Hawthorne carried a ...
West, Peter. The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; Reynolds, Larry J. ... West, Peter. The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2008. 229 pp. cloth, $44.95. In Arbiters of Reality, Peter West takes up an old topic, the view of romantic fiction held by Hawthorne and ...
New York Public Library digital version of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Cuba Journal.
Mar 22, 2009; Valenti, Patricia Dunlavy ... On December 20, 1833, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne sailed for Cuba with her sister. During the next eighteen months, Mary Peabody was governess to children on a coffee plantation, and Sophia wrote long, vividly descriptive letters, most of which were addressed to her mother. These letters were ...
Along the Wayside.
Mar 22, 2009; ... If you have news about upcoming Hawthorne events, in the shape of dramatic or operatic productions, I would like to have that information. Similarly, short notes about books that obviously draw from Hawthorne's work would be appreciated for the "Along the Wayside" column. Or, if you have ...
