Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family (Volume 24)
Herbert, T. Walter
ISBN 10: 0520075870 ISBN 13: 9780520075870
Published by University of California Press, 1993
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Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Volume 24. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Seller Inventory # L06F-00755
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The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne―for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness―was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.
About the Author: T. Walter Herbert is University Scholar and Brown Professor of English at Southwestern University. He is the author of Moby-Dick and Calvinism: A World Dismantled (1977) and Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the Meaning of Civilization (1980).
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Title: Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the ...
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included