1-20 of 430 Search Results for

letter

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2003) 2001 (1): 27–48.
Published: 01 September 2003
...Brenda Wineapple Duke University Press 2003 2 Hawthorne Brenda Wineapple A cornucopia of essays on The Scarlet Letter celebrates the 150th birthday of Hawthorne’s novel as does a special issue of SAF that contains excellent contributions by T. Walter Herbert and Michael T...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 219–238.
Published: 01 September 2011
...William J. Scheick; Jim Egan Duke University Press 2011 Part II 11  Literature to 1800 William J. Scheick and Jim Egan Perhaps this chapter should open with “Dear Reader,” given the amount of attention this year to letters, epistolary novels, and even epistolarity...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2020) 2018 (1): 25–30.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Karen Roggenkamp American Literary Scholarship (2018) doi 10.1215/00659142-8287919 © 2020 by Duke University Press 2 Hawthorne Karen Roggenkamp This year brings a surprisingly slender amount of scholarship on Nathan- iel Hawthorne. The Scarlet Letter was the only major work attracting any interest...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2002) 2000 (1): 29–43.
Published: 01 September 2002
... on The Scarlet Letter. As usual, The Scarlet Letter and The Marble Faun receive the pre- ponderance of comment, usually of a New Historical bent that reads Hawthorne’s last completed novel, for example, as an antebellum text of racial import. Patricia Crain’s The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2007) 2005 (1): 29–54.
Published: 01 September 2007
... Critical Edition of The Scarlet Letter. With its inclusion of essays emphasizing varied critical approaches and cultural contexts in recent scholarship, this new edition shares the central concern of what is arguably the most important contribution to Hawthorne scholarship this year, the collection...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2010) 2008 (1): 29–41.
Published: 01 September 2010
...,’ ” reads The Scarlet Letter as caution- ary ghost story and The House of the Seven Gables as “a tale of revenge directed at the obtuse and gullible as well as the politically corrupt.” Chapter 6, “Transformative Violence at Home and Abroad,” examines the author’s reaction to violence in the 1850s...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 33–52.
Published: 01 September 2008
... women associated with him, with the appearance ofElizabeth Manning Hawthorne: A Life in Letters and the collection Reinventing the Peabody Sisters. Engaging and important essays or parts of books on Hawthorne were contributed by Wanda Faye Jones, Betsy Klimasmith, Richard Kopley, Andrew Loman...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2006) 2004 (1): 31–49.
Published: 01 September 2006
... Cuba holds center stage. Describing in sensuous detail her intoxication with the tropical land- scape and climate—its heat, its color, and its fecundity—Sophia’s letters home to her mother came to be widely circulated in manuscript as her Cuba Journal. As Valenti notes, Sophia...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2010) 2008 (1): 387–414.
Published: 01 September 2010
... and she would have been appalled by their release. To what extent a new Complete Poems will incorporate previously unpublished work, or unpublished until Quinn’s edition came along, remains to be seen. In the meantime, Bishop’s Poems, Prose, and Letters, ed. Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 113–127.
Published: 01 September 2016
... scholarship confirms the changes wrought by The Selected Letters of Willa Cather(2013) as scholars evaluate that volume and adjust to its presence as a feature of their work. While no critical books or collections of essays appear in 2014, a significant 2013 thematic collection in the Italian journal...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 23–32.
Published: 01 September 2017
... lingered on The Marble Faun as a source for analysis, with all articles but one exploring The Scarlet Letter or The House of the Seven Gables. Along with psychoanalytic approaches, intertextuality and influ- ences remained sturdy windows through which to view Hawthorne’s writing, with pieces about...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 35–48.
Published: 01 September 2009
... knew him well. The editors open their bio- graphical introduction with the death of the author and let Franklin Pierce, in a letter to Bowdoin friend Horatio Bridge, provide his intimate account of Hawthorne’s last hours. With obituaries, artistic assessments, and biographies, and in transcribed...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2001) 1999 (1): 33–52.
Published: 01 September 2001
... that is open to historical considerations, and Elizabeth Hewitt’s striking political analysis of various Hawthorne and Melville letters. i Editions, Biography, and Bibliography The discovery of a Hawthorne letter by Richard P. Stebbins in the archives of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 341–362.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... White also makes important arguments about work by Loy and Claude McKay. His book offers a wealth of archival research (including unpublished letters, edito- rials, and the magazine versions of specific poems and stories) in support of the overall claim that American modernism developed...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2007) 2005 (1): 75–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
... edition (including the poet’s self-reviews), along with Emerson’s famous letter to Whitman and Whitman’s response to him from the 1856 edition. WWQR remains the leading journal of Whitman studies, publishing articles, reviews, and new primary materials and maintaining “Walt Whitman...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2022) 2020 (1): 123–141.
Published: 01 September 2022
... singer. Her speculation proved correct when Eva Hesse published a letter she received from Pound, cited in Berryman s new book, which confirmed that Collignon was indeed the singer in Envoi who reappears in Medallion. While Berryman supplies textual evidence to support her claims for the aesthetic...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2021) 2019 (1): 67–82.
Published: 01 September 2021
... on the Mississippi River that breaks new ground, a book on Twain s early vio- lent writing, a collection of letters, and a slew of critical and biographical articles and book chapters. i Letters A New Orleans Author in Mark Twain s Court: Letters from Grace King s New England Sojourns, ed. Miki Pfe er (LSU...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2005) 2003 (1): 33–45.
Published: 01 September 2005
...). Wineapple’s scholarly biography is likely to appeal to a much broader audience than is customary for aca- demic biographies. Thoroughly grounded in a wealth of archival and primary sources (its most original distinction in this regard being its use of Hawthorne family letters in the possession...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): 21–31.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Julian Hawthorne: The Life of a Prodigal Son (Illinois) offers readers an entertaining and incisive study of the impishly likable boy of Hawthorne’s American Notebooks who grew into “one of the most prolific—or profligate—authors in the history of American letters and a barometer of change...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 125–143.
Published: 01 September 2015
... issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English is devoted to Wharton; a special issue of the Edith Wharton Review describes teaching strategies. This year also witnesses a tectonic shift in Cather scholarship with the publication of The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, a volume Cather...