The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne offers students
and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne''s fiction and the lively
debates that shape Hawthorne studies today. In newly commissioned
essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce
readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our
understanding of Hawthorne''s writing. Each of the major novels is
treated in a separate chapter, while other essays explore
Hawthorne''s art in relation to a stimulating array of issues and
approaches. The essays reveal how Hawthorne''s work explores
understandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood and
selfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity. An
Introduction and a selected bibliography will help students and
teachers understand how Hawthorne has been a crucial figure for
each generation of readers of American literature.
目錄:
Chronology of Hawthorne''s life
Introduction Richard H. Millington
1. Hawthorne''s labors in Concord Larry J. Reynolds
2. Hawthorne as cultural theorist Joel Pfister
3. Hawthorne and American masculinity T. Walter Herbert
4. Hawthorne and the question of women Alison Easton
5. Hawthorne, modernity, and the literary sketch Kristie
Hamilton
6. Hawthorne''s American history Gillian Brown
7. Hawthorne and the writing of childhood Karen
Sanchez-Eppler
8. Love and politics, sympathy and justice in The Scarlet Letter
Brook Thomas
9. The marvelous queer interiors of The House of the Seven Gables
Christopher Castiglia
10. Sympathy and reform in The Blithedale Romance Robert S.
Levine
11. Perplexity, sympathy, and the question of the human: a reading
of The Marble Faun Emily Miller Budick
12. Whose Hawthorne? Gordon Hutner.