... of sin. The relationship between the aesthetic and the political in Hawthorne is the subject of the first third of Peter J. Bellis’s Writing Revolution. Through the medium of romance, Bellis argues, Hawthorne ‘‘envi- sions . . . a ‘neutral territory’ in which...

... of Merry Mount,” “The Shaker Bridal,” “Egotism; or, the Bosom-Serpent”) and the preface to Mosses from an Old Manse, then Andrew M. Smith and Elizabeth J. Wright 37 discusses the major romances before concluding with an examination of the interconnections of sexuality...

...: American Artists and Writers in Nineteenth-Century Italy (Iowa), a fine collection of essays edited by Robert K. Martin and Leland S. Person, we have six new and provocative essays on The Marble Faun, a number equal to the total on the other three romances combined. Though the quantity...

... to Hawthorne’s life from age 38 to death, but quite another to tell that story without even once mentioning Herman Melville. In an important new source study, The Threads of  The Scarlet Letter: A Study of Hawthorne’s Transformative Art (Delaware, 2003), Richard Kopley reads the romance as a complex...

..., a number of articles on The Blithedale Romance, as well as Bryan Homer s An American Liai- son, continue to fix Hawthorne in specific temporal and geographical coordinates. i Editions, Biography, and Bibliography Prodigious research is the hallmark of Bryan Homer s An American Liaison: Leamington Spa...

... or change.” Hawthorne’s constructions in “The Minister’s Black Veil,” The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance, The House of the Seven Gables, and the American Notebooks are an “engaging vacancy” where the author “both figures and asks his reader to figure an experience of affect...

... old newspapers, secur- ing a political post from friends, or by long and close observation of New England’s communities and the countryside. Bell urges we move beyond the Jamesian classification of realism and romance to consider the real as not so separate from the fantastic. Bell sees several...

.... Gilmore. Larry J. Reynolds has Žnely edited A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the chapter on The Blithedale Romance in Russ Castronovo’s Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth- Century United States is a stimulating, well-documented interpretation...

... in part by comparing the behavior and values of Franklin Pierce with those of Hollingsworth in The Blithedale Romance. Chapter 7, “The Stationary ‘Fall’ of a Public Intellectual,” asserts what Reynolds sees as Hawthorne’s alternative vision of society even in the face of the mounting...

... dedicated to “romance,” as demonstrated by his fiction, and a Hawthorne dedicated to “realism,” as demonstrated by his notebooks. In turn, the two Hawthornes developed across changing “habitations,” which Milder defines as “geographical places that were the scene and literal or figurative subject...

..., through Holgrave s change, e House of the Seven Gables promotes a model of gradual social improvement that is not divorced from a sense of the past, a view that parallels Hawthorne s own. iv e Blithedale Romance Benjamin Joshua Doty s Fourierism and Nervous Sympathy in e Blithedale Romance (NHR...

..., and Hawthorne criticism, Barlowe’s longest chapter will im- press many a reader, to say nothing of movie-goers, as wishful analysis sincerely motivated. Robert S. Friedman’s Hawthorne’s Romances: Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry (Harwood Academic) is a quasi-anthropological investigation...

.... The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance also inspire notable critical responses, both in articles and in chapters from two monographs on 19th-century literature. i The Tales Joan Curbet Soler s The Ekphrastic Moment: Art, Image, and Identity in Hawthorne s Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1842...

...” and that he explores further in novels like The Blithedale Romance. Sophia Hawthorne’s travel writing also gains notice this year in Julie E. Hall’s “ ‘Endless Worlds of Meaning’: Sophia Hawthorne’s Florence” (NHR 40, i: 82–97), which echoes nicely the tensions between past and present that Hewitson...

... published five “crimies” with major trade presses since 2000. Romance Today: An A-to-Z Guide to Contemporary American Romance, ed. John Charles, Shelley Mosley, et al. (Greenwood), fills another niche in scholarship on formulaic fiction by women writers. The volume con- tains over 100 entries...

... labored to uncover the sources for Hawthorne’s tales, sketches, and romances. Cody adds to the volume of material on this topic by listing “additional and unknown sources” for over 250 items contained in the material Hawthorne wrote while serving as editor of the American Magazine of Useful...

... notebooks, sketches, stories, and novels. The “contempla- tion of sculpture,” whether complete or fragmentary, becomes a mecha- nism by which Hawthorne can “reflect on his own art” and “shape the distinctive form of literary Romance that would define him as an Ameri- can writer.” Fernie depicts...

..., often imaginary marital grati cation. John Mac Kilgore interrogates an obscure economic text in John Lithgow s Real Utopia and the Anticapitalist Romance of the Early Republic (EAL : ). Kilgore argues that Lithgow s Equality A Political Romance deploys the utopian romance to criticize the political...

... Novel and Romance. Rather, McCall hears a divided Haw- thorne in dialogue with himself about his relation to his work and his audience, combating an old nemesis, ‘‘his sense of failing his materials and the best in his own talent This tension is a central theme in McCall’s fourth...

... attention to “Tom Outland’s Story,” the second section of The Professor’s House, Swift traces its beginnings when Cather first began it about 1916 as “The Blue Mesa.” As she described it then, he maintains, it sounds much less what it became in the novel and much more of a romance, perhaps, he...