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Liquid Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Liquid Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Gable Jr, Harvey L.
Smolinski, Reiner

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Series: Early American Literature and Culture Through the American R, Book 2

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 0820438308
ISBN13: 9780820438306
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Oct 1 1998
Pages: 324
Language: English
Liquid Fire exposes the sophisticated discourse about the Self in Hawthorne's romances that serves not only as the foundation of Hawthorne's imagery, but often as the architectonic of the romance as a whole. Beginning with a study of contemporary constructions of the Self and meaning in the thought of New England clergyman Horace Bushnell, philosopher R. W. Emerson, and mesmerist J. P. F. Deleuze, the argument traces Hawthorne's involvement with these ideas and the process of his conversion to them, culminating in detailed analyses of the four major romances that show how deeply they are worked with speculations about the nature of the Self and its ambient reality. Later works are largely incoherent without this perspective on their construction.

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