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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)
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Criticism about Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Hawthorne, the Hippie and the Square
- http://debacle.org/hawthorne/hhs.html
- “A MEMBER OF MY FRESHMAN HUMANITIES SECTION speaks to the class on ‘The Hippie and the Square’…I am especially reminded of Hawthorne, a man whose thought is more radical and more modern (or more timeless) than we usually recognize behind the eighteenth-century urbanity of his style, his allegorical habit, and his historical settings.”
- Author: EARL HILTON
- From: Studies in the Novel, 1970, pp. 425-39
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- Domesticating Hawthorne: Home Is for the Birds
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/criticism/v043/43.1dolis.html
- An essay which examines bird and house metaphors in Hawthorne’s works. From a sample issue of the journal that is available without access restrictions.
- Contains: Criticism,
- Author: John Dolis
- From: Criticism 43.1 (2001) 7-28
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- Early criticism or biography of Hawthorne
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nhcrit.html
- This site provides links to criticism of Hawthorne and his works by his contemporaries like Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Alan Poe.
- Contains: Criticism, Webliography
- Author: Eldred, Eric
- From: Eldritch Press
- Keywords: contemporary criticism, peers, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Hawthorne
- https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#2
- This lengthy analysis of the author’s life and work includes sections on “Hawthorne and Puritanism”, “His Relations with the Transcendentalists”, “Early Stories”, “Later Romances”, and “Transcendental Doctrines in Hawthorne: Self-Reliance; Compensation; Circles.”
- Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography
- Author: John Erskien
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XVI: American, Early National Literature: Part II, Later National Literature: Part I
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- Hawthorne and His Mosses
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hahm.html
- Author Herman Melville discusses Hawthorne’s works.
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: Herman Melville
- From: The Literary World August 17 and 24, 1850
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- Major Themes in Hawthorne’s Fiction
- http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/hawthorne.html#th…
- This site provides a list of major themes in Hawthorne’s work with a one sentence description of the concept.
- Contains: Commentary, Criticism
- Author: Reuben, Paul
- Keywords: themes, Hawthorne, concepts
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/the-american-novel/115536/
- “When Hawthorne published The Scarlet Letter in 1850 he could not profit by a long series of native experiments in the art of the novel but had to initiate the mode in which he has since seemed supreme. And yet The Scarlet Letter represents in Hawthorne’s own career the fruit of an apprenticeship to art the like of which no other American man of letters has demanded of himself.”
- Contains: Criticism, Extensive Bio
- Author: Carl Van Doren
- From: The American Novel Chapter 4; New York: MacMillan, 1921
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- “The Old Manse” Revisited: Some Analogues for Art
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/willou.html
- “Hawthorne’s “The Old Manse” may be seen as an expression of his convictions about art–hence, as an expression of his sense of relation to his audience and to his writings, and of his abiding concern with the problem of knowledge.”
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: John C. Willoughby
- From: The New England Quarterly vol. XLVI, No. 1, March, 1973, pp. 45-61
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- The Power of Passion: Hawthorne’s Tales of Thwarted Desire
- http://cortlandreview.com/issuethree/heath3.htm
- “The Power of Passion discusses Hawthorne’s profound ambivalence toward women and passion in his finest stories. This essay is part of a larger study, ‘Hawthorne and Merry Old England,’ that notes how Hawthorne tends to equate art, joy, and sensuality with Shakespearean England�a theme that achieves its richest expression in The Scarlet Letter, when Hester and Pearl embody the world the Puritans thought they were leaving behind.”
- Contains: Criticism, Bibliography
- Author: William Heath
- From: The Courtland Review May 1998
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- Some Observations About Hawthorne’s Women
- http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall93/k-ellis.html
- An essay examining Hawthorne’s portrayal of women in his works, and the reasoning behind it. Also contains references to Sir Walter Scott’s ground-breaking portrayal of women in The Heart of Midlothian.
- Contains: Criticism, Commentary, Bibliography
- Author: Barbara Ellis
- From: Women in Literature and Life Assembly (WILLA) Ellis, Barbara. (1993). Some observations about Hawthorne’s women. WILLA, Volume II, 13-18.
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Biographical sites about Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Classic Text: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/exhibits/clastext/clspg143.htm
- This site provides a brief biographical sketch followed by information about The Scarlet Letter, especially about the volume held by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
- Contains: Sketch, Pictures
- Author: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Keywords: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter
- Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html#nhb
- This site provides a list of links to facts of interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s life.
- Contains: Timeline
- From: Eldritch Press
- Keywords: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nhahw.html
- This is the full text of a book about Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife written by Julian Hawthorne in 1884.
- Contains: Full Bio
- Author: Hawthorne, Julian
- From: Eldritch Press
- Keywords: Nathaniel Hawthorne, wife, biography
Other sites about Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Art, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nha.html
- This is a site which contains portraits of Nathaniel Hawthorne and links to illustrations from some of his novels.
- Contains: Pictures
- From: Eldritch Press
- Keywords: portraits, pictures, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Hawthorne, by Longfellow, 1864
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nhlong.html
- This poem, written in 1864 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, explores the death of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Longfellow’s reactions.
- Contains: Commentary
- Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- From: Eldritch Press
- Keywords: Nathaniel Hawthorne, death, poem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Home Page
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hawthorne.html
- This page includes links to biographical information, criticism, and a wide variety of other web sites, as well as online texts of Hawthorne’s work.
- Contains: Works Available, Works List, Webliography, Criticism, Pictures, Extensive Bio
- Author: Eric Eldred
- From: Eldritch Press
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- On Visiting the Graves of Hawthorne and Thoreau
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/very.html
- This site is a poem written by Very Jones, a transcendental poet, describing a visit to the graves of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau.
- Contains: Commentary
- Author: Very, Jones
- From: Eldritch Press
- Keywords: poem, transcendental movement, graves
- Places from Hawthorne’s life and writings
- http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/nhp.html
- “Places from Hawthorne’s Life and Writings” contains a list of the places where Nathaniel Hawthorne lived and links to photographs of the different places.
- Contains: Pictures, Timeline
- From: Eldritch Press
- Keywords: house, Nathaniel Hawthorne, photographs, places
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