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Author:   Robert Milder (Professor of English, Professor of English, Washington University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780199917259

ISBN 10:   0199917256
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   31 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Chapter 1: Two Hawthornes Chapter 2: Telling it Slant Chapter 3: The Wild and the Good Chapter 4: Undoing it All Chapter 5: Hawthorne and the Problem of New England Chapter 6: Sisters Act Chapter 7: In the Belly of the Beast Chapter 8: Indian Summer Chapter 9: A Fine Bewilderment Chapter 10: On the Crust Coda: Last Words Endnotes

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[an] excellent study ... Highly recommended. * M. S. Stephenson, Choice *

[an] excellent study ... Highly recommended. M. S. Stephenson, Choice

<br> No one who reads this searching, deeply informed critical biography of Hawthorne will be able to think the same way again about the fraught relation between 'romance' and 'realism' in his thought and writing, or about the significance of the timing and sequence of his books. Despite the mountain of prior Hawthorne scholarship, Milder offers fresh insights on many fronts, culminating with his reassessment of the still-neglected literary upshot of Hawthorne's English sojourn. --Lawrence Buell, author of Emerson<br><p><br> Robert Milder's expertly crafted close readings of Hawthorne's tales and romances synthesize several decades of scholarship even as they yield up their own gems of literary and biographical insight. --Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters<br><p><br> It is no secret that Hawthorne's fiction juxtaposed materiality and ideality as patent themes. Only Robert Milder, however, has shown how deeply rooted those categories were in his circumstances and personality; how he wavered precariously between their claims on him; and what price he paid, aesthetically, for hesitating to trust his considerable gifts as a realist. Hawthorne's Habitations brilliantly and fairly reassesses both the writer and his work. --Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays and The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes<br><p><br>

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Robert Milder, Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Reimagining Thoreau and Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine and the coeditor of The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks.

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