Recently added articles from Nathaniel Hawthorne Review:

From the editor's Gable.(Advertisement)

Sep 22, 2006 ... In its effort to find someone to succeed the current editor of the Review, the Executive Council of the Hawthorne Society has approved the following advertisement to be printed in a few journals and placed on several web sites. <Pre>The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society invites ...

Blood vengeance in The Scarlet Letter.(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2006; Adams, Fred C. ... "In the spirit of men there is no blood" Julius Caesar 11.1.168 When blood is drawn, the human tendency leans toward Old Testament "eye-for-an-eye" retribution. But how may one avenge a wrong committed by a society en masse? By withholding what is vital to the common ...

A problem of conception and creation in Hawthorne's "The Artist of the Beautiful".(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2006; Church, Joseph ... This so frequent abortion of man's dearest projects must be taken as proof that the deeds of earth, however etherealized by piety or genius, are without value, except as exercises and manifestations of the spirit. Hawthorne, "The Artist of the Beautiful" Married in ...

Charles Ives's Hawthorne.(Critical essay)

Sep 22, 2006; Gollin, Rita K. ... When a pianist friend recently asked if I was familiar with Charles Ives's Concord Sonata, I admitted total ignorance. He then told me that the sonata's second movement is entitled "Hawthorne," and the three others are entitled "Emerson," "The Alcotts," and "Thoreau." Although he had ...

Valenti, Patricia Dunlavy. Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1, 1809-1847.(Book review)

Sep 22, 2006; Reynolds, Larry J. ... Valenti, Patricia Dunlavy. Sophia Peabody Hawthorne: A Life, Volume 1, 1809-1847. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2004. 306 pp. This biographical study provides a fresh and appreciative account of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's first thirty-eight years of life, ...

Ullen, Magnus. The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics.(Book review)

Sep 22, 2006 ... Ullen, Magnus. The Half-Vanished Structure: Hawthorne's Allegorical Dialectics. Bern: Peter Lang, 2004. 450 pp. $76.95. This brilliantly analytical and perceptive study of Hawthorne's wrestling with "blasted allegories'" and symbolism, as seen in the four romances from The ...

Greven, David. Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature.(Book review)

Sep 22, 2006; Coale, Samuel Chase ... Greven, David. Men Beyond Desire: Manhood, Sex, and Violation in American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 294 pp. $65.00. Masculinity has always been a disputed area and arena of performance in American literature from its earliest beginnings. Threats from the ...

Davis, Clark. Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement.(Book review)

Sep 22, 2006; Dolis, John ... Davis, Clark. Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 188 pp. $48.00. As its subtitle announces, this book sets out to negotiate Hawthorne's oeuvre in light of its ethical concerns. Over and against ...

de Rocher, Cecile Anne, ed. Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters.(Book review)

Sep 22, 2006; Kesterson, David B. ... de Rocher, Cecile Anne, ed. Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xiv, 211pp. $40.00. Perhaps the closest thing to an "untold story" within the Hawthorne family is the life of Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Hawthorne's ...

Balestrini, Nassim Winnie. From Fiction to Libretto: Irving, Hawthorne, and James as Opera.(Book review)

Sep 22, 2006; Idol, John L. ... 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 ...

Current bibliography.(Bibliography)

Sep 22, 2006; Chainer-Nowacki, Jessica ... Bibliographies Nowacki, Jessica C. "Current Bibliography." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 31, no. 2 (2005): 90-13 7. Editions The House of the Seven Gables. A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Robert S. Levine. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. Includes a ...

Nathaniel and Sophia reunited after 142 years.(Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Hawthorne)

Sep 22, 2006; Joseph, Mary ... It was, observed Hawthorne Dominican Sister Mary de Paul, an event worthy of an opera. After a separation lasting 142 years Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, the closest of lovers in life, were reunited when Sophia and their daughter Una were reinterred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery on June 26, ...

Along the Wayside.(Nathaniel Hawthorne Society meeting)(Brief article)

Sep 22, 2006 ... Two sessions are scheduled for the MLA convention in Philadelphia. The first, "Transatlantic Hawthorne: Influences and Interventions," chaired by Richard Kopley, features Lance Newman, "Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and the Containment of Radical ...