Selected Tales and Sketches

Selected Tales and Sketches
Title Selected Tales and Sketches PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher Penguin
Pages 481
Release 1987-03-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101077808

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The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.

Selected Tales and Sketches

Selected Tales and Sketches
Title Selected Tales and Sketches PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher Penguin
Pages 481
Release 1987-03-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101077808

Download Selected Tales and Sketches Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.

nathaniel hawthorne selected tales and sketches

nathaniel hawthorne selected tales and sketches
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Hawthorne: Selected Tales and Sketches

Hawthorne: Selected Tales and Sketches
Title Hawthorne: Selected Tales and Sketches PDF eBook
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Pages 452
Release 1964
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Title Nathaniel Hawthorne PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Release 1970
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Title Nathaniel Hawthorne PDF eBook
Author Charles Swann
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 298
Release 1991-06-28
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521365529

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This is the first analysis of the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his perception of history. In his study, Charles Swann examines the whole of Hawthorne's literary career and gives proper weight to the unfinished work. Hawthorne saw history as a struggle between the authoritative claims of tradition on the one hand and the conflicting but equally valid claims of the desires for revolutionary transformation on the other. To evaluate Hawthorne's view of history, Swann provides close readings of such key shorter works as Alice Doane's Appeal and Main Street, as well as the most detailed analysis to date of the unfinished works The American Claimant Mss and The Elixir of Life Mss (two works which exemplify the temptations of tradition and the exhilaration of the revolutionary moment). This study asks us to explore how Hawthorne presents and interprets history through his fiction: for example, the history of crucial sins of the past (and the contemporary placing of such sins) in Alice Doane's Appeal, the problematic nature of the American Revolution in The Elixir of Life Mss, and the role of society in The Scarlet Letter. Swann's innovative study will be of interest to students and scholars of American literature, history, cultural studies, and literary criticism.

Tales and Sketches

Tales and Sketches
Title Tales and Sketches PDF eBook
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Pages 1206
Release 1996
Genre Fiction
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Gathers all of Hawthorne's stories, including his retellings of classical myths for children.