Balestrini, Nassim Winnie. From Fiction to Libretto: Irving, Hawthorne, and James as Opera.(Book review) From: Nathaniel Hawthorne Review | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Idol, John L. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Balestrini, Nassim Winnie. From Fiction to Libretto: Irving, Hawthorne, and James as Opera. Frankfort am Main: Peter Lang. 2005. 582 pp. $95.95.

A theme, transformation, that Hawthorne never tired of treating lies at the heart of Professor Balestrini's thoroughgoing and pioneering study of how "Rip van Winkle," The Scarlet Letter, and Washington Square found new, and often radically different, life as plays and libretti for operas. For the three works chosen for treatmen...

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