Ullen, Magnus. The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics.(Book review)

From: Nathaniel Hawthorne Review | Date: September 22, 2006 | Copyright information

Ullen, Magnus. The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. 450 pp. $76.95.

This brilliantly analytical and perceptive study of Hawthorne's wrestling with "blasted allegories'" and symbolism, as seen in the four romances from The Scarlet Letter to The Marble Faun, deserves to become an indispensable addition to all major Hawthorne criticism. Magnus Ullen examines the structures and themes of the romances in such a subtle and in...

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