Article: Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Study of the Short Fiction. (book reviews)

The dust-jacket blurb promises far more than this book delivers - "Nancy Bunge investigates the whole of Hawthorne's short fiction canon, including a number of the less celebrated stories." Bunge's prefatory statement that she focused on 31 of Hawthorne's tales corrects the publisher's hype. Her wish that she could have written about Hawthorne's other 66 tales and sketches betrays a frustration that everyone who must conform to an existing series format must feel.

Within the harness of the format, Bunge lacked the space and freedom that Lea Newman enjoyed in A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bunge's purpose differs essentially from ...

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