Recently added articles from Nathaniel Hawthorne Review:
From the editor's gable.(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2007 ... Suggested previously in this space, one year remains before the present editor retires from his duties. No one thus far has seriously applied to take his place. The situation scarcely has millennial implications, but it would be a shame to have the publication of the journal interrupted, ...
Beautiful illusions: Hawthorne and the site of moral law.(Nathaniel Hawthorne)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2007; ... The falseness of a given judgment does not constitute an objection against it, so far as we are concerned .... The real question is how far a judgment furthers and maintains life .... We are, in fact, fundamentally inclined to maintain that the falsest judgments ... are the most ...
Reinventing the Peabody Sisters.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Reinventing the Peabody Sisters. Ed. Monika M. Elbert, Julie E. Hall, and Katharine Rodier. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. xxi + 271 pp. $39.95. We have long been familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne's protest against the "d--d mob of scribbling women" with whom he ...
Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays. Ed. Millicent Bell. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005. 228pp. $59.95 cloth; $9.95 CD. This volume, commissioned and arranged by Millicent Bell at the request of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society to mark the Hawthorne ...
Lounsbery, Anne. Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Lounsbery, Anne. Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. 306 pp. $45.00 cloth, $27.50 paper. In the "Introduction," Anne Lounsbery sets out the general sociopolitical, ...
Mason, Jennifer. Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Mason, Jennifer. Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 229 pp. $55.00. In Civilized Creatures, part of the Animals, History, Culture series edited by Harriet Ritvo, ...
Current bibliography.(Bibliography)
Sep 22, 2007; ... Bibliographies Nowacki, Jessica Chainer. "Current Bibliography." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 31, no. 2 (2005): 90-137. Mitchell, Thomas R. "Hawthorne." In American Literary Scholarship 2004. Ed. David Nordloh and Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, ...
From the editor's gable.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Appearing in these pages for the third time in the past four years, Michael Colacurcio argues in his inimitable way that Ahab's defiant glare into godly hell-fire issues first from Melville's misreading of Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse and second from a further, perhaps willful, ...
"Artificial fire": reading Melville (re-)reading Hawthorne.(Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Melville, we mostly agree, is our first strong reader of Hawthorne: our blue-eyed Nathaniel really does have the power greatly to deceive the "superficial skimmer of pages"; and the premise of "blackness" endures, even if troubled by our evolved sense of racial discourse. (1) But this is ...
Hawthorne's glimpses of English poverty.(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Mar 22, 2007; ... In his dedicatory preface to Our Old Home, his last completed book, Hawthorne writes that "some of my friends have told me that they evince an asperity of sentiment towards the English people which I ought not to feel, and which it is highly inexpedient to express. The charge surprises me" ...
Merry Old England and Hawthorne's "The May-Pole of Merry Mount".
Mar 22, 2007; ... "The May-Pole of Merry Mount" is at once a meditation on the danger of "merriment" out of control, a lament for the loss of Merry Old England, and a prophecy of the triumph of Puritanic gloom. Although not as artistically accomplished as "The Minister's Black Veil" or "Young Goodman ...
Riss, Arthur. Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Riss, Arthur. Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 238 pp. $80.00. Arthur Riss's Race, Slavery, and Liberalism challenges many influential contemporary critics of antebellum literature, arguing that ...
Along the wayside.(The Yale Book of Quotations and American Literature Association conference )(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2007 ... Fred Shapiro writes that he has recently published "The Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press), intended to be a much more comprehensive and thoroughly researched quotation dictionary than Bartlett's or Oxford University Press's. There is a sizable section of quotations under ...
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; ... "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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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 ...