Tag: Hawthorne

Free Download Jack Lynch, "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
English | 2009 | pages: 328 | ISBN: 1587656043 | PDF | 10,6 mb
This volume, brings together some of the representative high points of Hawthorne criticism, ranging chronologically from the 1940s to the present. The essays take a variety of critical and theoretical approaches: some ask biographical questions, while others examine Hawthorne’s psychology; still others look at his historical and literary contexts. There are essays on mythology, on politics, and on theology. Together, they trace Hawthorne’s reception through changing critical fashions, and illuminate some of the central concerns in Hawthorne criticism: the place of sin and Providence in his fiction, the genres in which he wrote, and the shape of his career as a whole. None of the essays presumes to be the final word on the subject. Instead, each is valuable for offering a starting point for thinking about Hawthorne’s work, and for suggesting avenues for further exploration.

Free Download Kenneth Dauber, "The Logic of Sentiment: Stowe, Hawthorne, and Melville"
English | ISBN: 1501357379 | 2019 | 176 pages | PDF | 1289 KB
The Logic of Sentiment is a study of sentimentality, a literary mode that aims to answer the question, "What hold us together?" Against the grain of cultural studies, which understands sentimentality as consolidating communities on the basis of material or historical foundations, Kenneth Dauber takes a philosophical approach. He argues that sentimentality is love conceptualized in denial of a skepticism-understood as the problem of people’s otherness to each other-that material associations cannot dispel. Through close readings in the style of "ordinary language" criticism, Dauber analyzes mid-19th-century American novels, where sentimentality achieved its most complete articulation, with a focus on three novels published nearly simultaneously-Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The House of the Seven Gables, and Pierre.

Free Download Martin Kevorkian, "Writing beyond Prophecy: Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville after the American Renaissance"
English | 2013 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0807147605 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Identifying a line of writing from Emerson’s Conduct of Life to Hawthorne’s posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscript to Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Martin Kevorkian demonstrates how these authors wrestled with their vocational calling.