A Historical Guide To Nathaniel Hawthorne

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Oxford
Publisher Year:
Edition: First Edition

Description: 223 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Nathaniel Hawthorne remains one of the most widely read and taught of American authors. This Historical Guide collects a number of original essays by Hawthorne scholars that place the author in historical context. Like other volumes in the series, A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne includes an introduction, a brief biography, a bibliographical essay, and an illustrated chronology of the author's life and times. Combining cultural criticism with historical scholarship, this volume addresses a wide range of topics relevant to Hawthorne's work, including his relationship to slavery, children, mesmerism, and the visual arts.

ISBN: 9780195124149