| Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family Volume 24 Contributor(s): Herbert, T. Walter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520201558 ISBN-13: 9780520201552 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $36.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 5.9" W x 8.87" (1.33 lbs) 331 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |