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Salem is my dwelling place : a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne /

In one of his public disavowals of autobiography, Nathaniel Hawthorne informed his readers that external traits "hide the man, instead of displaying him," directing them instead to "look through the whole range of his fictitious characters, good and evil, in order to detect any of his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Edwin Haviland
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1991.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Salem is my dwelling place"
  • The heritage: the Hathornes and the Mannings
  • "The gentle boy"
  • "Living upon Uncle Robert"
  • Bowdoin College: venturing into the world
  • Intercourse with the world: Fanshawe
  • "Castle Dismal"
  • Intercourse with the world: The early tales
  • The Peabodys
  • Two sisters in love
  • Mary Silsbee: "Star of Salem"
  • The comedy of manners ends happily
  • Port-admiral at the Boston Custom-House
  • "Thou art my type of womanly perfection"
  • Book farm: "That abominable gold-mine"
  • "I take this dove in bed and board
  • Eden in Concord
  • Margaret Fuller in Concord
  • Intercourse with the world: Mosses from an old manse
  • Salem, hail and farewell
  • Intercourse with the world: The scarlet letter
  • The Berkshires, 1850: enter Herman Melville
  • Intercourse with the world: The house of the seven gables
  • Lenox, 1851: intimations
  • "Big hearts strike together"
  • Intercourse with the world: The Blithedale romance
  • President Pierce's "Prime minister"
  • England: "I do not take root anywhere"
  • Italy: "Dim reflections in my inward mirror"
  • Intercourse with the world: The marble faun
  • Concord, 1860-1862
  • The crack-up: the unfinished romances
  • "The great, generous, brave heart beat no more."