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Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family Volume 24

Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family Volume 24

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Series: New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, Book 24

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0520201558
ISBN13: 9780520201552
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 7 1995
Pages: 331
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.87
Language: English
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.

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