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Fictions of the Panopticon: Prison, Utopia, and the Out-Penitent in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 121–145.
Published: 01 March 2001
...E. Shaskan Bumas Duke University Press 2001 E. Shaskan Fictions of the Panopticon:
Bumas Prison, Utopia, and the Out-Penitent
in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
The great utopian writers from Plato through
Thomas More explained...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 637–638.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Else: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James.ByDan
McCall. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 1999. x, 200 pp. $25.00.
A sense of style, C. S. Lewis once observed, not only tells us how we should
say things...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 723–753.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Clayton Marsh Abstract Drawing on a wide range of temperance reform literature, this essay examines the temporal dimensions of America’s antebellum crusade against alcohol and their remarkably complex treatment in the tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The inebriates in Hawthorne’s tales...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 91–122.
Published: 01 March 2020
... times and places and emphasizes the vast and varied entanglements of those experiences and epistemologies with mainstream US culture. To do so, “Touching The Scarlet Letter ” turns to perhaps the most canonical American novel to show how returning disability history to a text—here Nathaniel Hawthorne’s...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
Published: 01 September 2021
... ode to the Erie Canal to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ironic canal travel sketches to Margarita Engle’s recent historical verse-novel tallying the devastations of the Panama Canal—this essay identifies an infrastructural dialectic in which writers view infrastructure, initially...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 595–624.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., in his review of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne’s Mosses from an Old Manse, remarks its ‘‘blackness, ten times
black as well as Hawthorne’s tendency to tell the truth ‘‘covertly,
and by snatches 1 For modern readers, this early...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 243–273.
Published: 01 June 2007
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Notes
1 I trace this extended narrative in my forthcoming book Freedom’s Empire:
Race, Rape, and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940
(Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2007).
2 Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (New York: Norton Critical Edi-
tion, 1988...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2013
... : Wesleyan Univ. Press . ———. 2007 . American Transcendentalism: A History . New York : Hill and Wang . Hawthorne Nathaniel . ( 1837 ) 1974a . Twice-Told Tales. Vol. 9 of The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne . Edited by Charvat William Pearce Roy Harvey...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2016
...-Fictions , edited by Weinberger Eliot , translated by Allen Esther Levine Suzanne Jill Weinberger Eliot , 363 – 65 . New York : Viking . Bowers Fredson . 1963 . “A Preface to the Text.” In The Scarlet Letter. The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 417–426.
Published: 01 June 2014
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The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender. By David
Greven. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2012. viii, 311 pp. Cloth, $59.95; CD
with e-book, $14.95.
Seeking to correct the critical consensus that Nathaniel Hawthorne is either an
apolitical or a conservative writer insofar...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 420–421.
Published: 01 June 2001
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able for a romance-writer Nathaniel Hawthorne observes that ‘‘the floor of
our familiar room has become a neutral territory somewhere between the
real world and fairy-land, where the Actual and the Imaginary may meet...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 187–195.
Published: 01 March 2018
... explores two major types of female poisoners: the romantic poisoner, depicted by John Keats and Edgar Allan Poe, and the democratic poisoner, depicted by Nathaniel Hawthorne and George Lippard. Dismantling Slavery: Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Formation of the Abolitionist...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 603–606.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., an epilogue recasts the foregoing material in light of the US Civil War. Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority . By Tim Sommer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press. 2021. x, 270 pp. Cloth, $110.00; e-book, $110.00. Arguing that works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 863–866.
Published: 01 December 2018
... World’s Fair, visual tourism, and the daguerreotype became a type of metaphorical subtext to works written by Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Sarah Orne Jewett. Sonstegard’s book is more specific, as he cogently returns to the original illustrated printings of famous novels...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 885–888.
Published: 01 December 2011
... should prove useful both as an entrée into Wideman’s life and writing
and as a tool for deepening critical understanding of his work.
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The French Face of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Monsieur de l’Aubepine and His Second
Empire Critics. Ed. Michael Anesko and N. Christine Brookes...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 885–888.
Published: 01 December 2017
..., Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Robert Frost relaying us from the Puritans to William and Henry James, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Lowell, and the latter-day Susan Howe and Marilynne Robinson. The thrill for New is to engage us in the meditative intensity of Puritan-descended, Puritanism...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 863–865.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to this anxiety and suspicion, Le Fustec shows how transcendence and mystery (or sometimes even their absence), as announced in a text as its “kerygmatic” content, are at the heart of a large swathe of US classics, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) up to and including Toni Morrison’s Beloved...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 643–646.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to literary materials, which range from Edward Taylor to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Downes concludes by brilliantly revisiting Nat Turner’s legacy. Rather than revolting against a “slaveholding ideology” predicated on Hobbesian absolutism, Turner harnessed the terror associated with “a Hobbesian state of nature...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 683–711.
Published: 01 December 2014
... in these later periods, such that, for exam-
ple, Nathaniel Hawthorne could ironically recall the Whig sinecure
who fired him from the Salem Custom House as an “exterminating
angel” ([1851] 1962, 14). However, this ironic disparagement of angelic
agency indirectly draws attention to the potential power...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 525–528.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., and autobiography” produced by writers from “vastly different social locations” in mid- and late-nineteenth-century America (3). She analyzes diverse acknowledgements of “telegraph speech” in canonical texts, including Emily Dickinson’s envelope and other poems, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables...
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