Dearest Beloved : The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family Paperback / softback
by T. Walter Herbert
Part of the The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:331 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:07/03/1995
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- ISBN:9780520201552
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:331 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:07/03/1995
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520201552
