.... E. H. EBY Univet-sity of Washington Hawthorne, the Artist: Fine-Art Devices in Fictiolz. By LELAND SCHUBERT.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Pp. 177. $3.50. Other writers om Hawthorne have touched in passing 011 the devices Hawthorne...

...Lawrence Willson Michael Davitt Bell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. xii + 253 pp. $7.50. Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 LAWKENCE WILLSON 215 Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England...

.... R. E. WATTERS University of Washington The English Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Based upon the Original Manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan Library and Edited by RANDALLSTEWART. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1941. Pp. xliv + 661. $6.00...

... long biography of Haw- thorne will not lead them to change their minds. Most readers under fifty will find the Hawthorne of the Inwurd Sky unconvincing, partly because there is almost no reliance on the critical developments of the last twenty-five years. “My Kinsman, Major Mollineux...

... Hunt, who was a Clarkean idol, will figure importantly in such a history. Mr. Altick‘s pene- trating observations will be useful to the historian. JAMES R. CALDWELL University of California Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Biography...

...James W. Mathews Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 HAWTHORNE AND THE CHAIN OF BEING By JAMES W. MATHEWS In line with Paul Elmer More’s conclusion that Nathaniel Haw- thorne “saw only the infinite isolation of the errant SQUcritical...

...Thomas J. Otten Ekphrasis undergoes a decisive shift in Nathaniel Hawthorne and his contemporaries. Whereas Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and other seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers (John Dryden, Alexander Pope) distinguished between verbal and visual arts through metaphors of realms...

.... Hawthorne’s Romanticism: From Canon to Corpus William Jewe tt The hand that renovates is always more sacrilegious than that which destroys. -Hawthorne, “The Old Manse” his essay takes Hawthorne’s little-read sketch “P.’s Correspon- Tdence” as a guide to a deferential...

... for generous comments and advice. I am also indebted to Anthony LaBranche, Department of English, Loyola University of Chicago, for his guidance and solicitude. HAWTHORNE’S TACTILE GAZE THE PHENOMENON OF DEPTH* By JOHN DOLIS...

... HUTNER.Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1988.245 pp. $26.00. In the first paragraph of Secrets and Sympalhy, Gordon Hutner states that his “primary interest . . .. is to study the presence of secrets-their pur- poses, effects, and themes-in [Hawthorne’s] works, so that we may come...

... about his endeavors. WILLIAMD. TEMPLEMAN University of Southern California Hawthorne’s Last Phase. By EDWARDHUTCHINS DAVIDSON. New Haven : Yale Studies in English, Vol. 111, 1949. Pp. xiv + 172. $3.75. Hawthorne’s Last Phare...

.... In such thoughts both men had perhaps had their most charac- teristic expression” (p. 415). Hoeltje moves from Sophia Hawthorne’s views to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s major works, and he does not allow for the fact that Hawthorne as imaginative writer was not identical with Sophia Hawthorne’s husband...

... of Washington Hawthorne, the Artist: Fine-Art Devices in Fictiolz. By LELAND SCHUBERT.Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Pp. 177. $3.50. Other writers om Hawthorne have touched in passing 011 the devices Hawthorne employs in his fiction, but Mr. Schubert’s...

..., Melville irt the South Seas (New York, 1939), pp. 179-195. 5 Contemporary advertisements and allusions, as well as Melville’s own petulance at his reputation as the “man who lived among the cannibals” (see letter to Hawthorne [185l], Thorp, op, cit., p. 392), bear witness to the effect...

... dream of a witch-meeting?l The above question, found in the second to the last paragraph of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s famous short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” has perhaps inspired more comment than any other sen- tence of the author’s works. But it is futile...

... over the manuscript of Moby-Dick for many months after its first version was nearly done (as indeed he had previously held back Mardi, the book in which the impulse had first manifested itself).l5 Then he wrote to Hawthorne, “a little bluely,” he must finish it up somehow: “Dollars damn...

.... MARK EDMUNDSON University of Virginia ThOfJice of “The Scarlet Lettm ”By SACVAN BERCOVITCH.Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xxii + 1’75 pp. $22.95. Seven or eight years ago, in the conclusion to The School of Hawthorne, I raised the question whether...

... with which the artist works. It is remarkably easy to trace the pervasive influence of Emersoni- anism. But who, besides Poe, was affected by the assumptions of Poeism? In America, I think, the chief adherent to the Poeist position was Nathaniel Hawthorne. Certainly Hawthorne’s themes run deeper...

.... $10.00. Students of English literature are often slightly patronizing toward “Ameri- canists” and American literature. Hubert H. Hoeltje’s long biography of Haw- thorne will not lead them to change their minds. Most readers under fifty will find the Hawthorne of the Inwurd Sky unconvincing...

... problems are almost inevitably created: Is Miranda of Lowell’s A Fable for Critics at all a copy of Poe’s Zenobia? What is the connection between the Zenobia of Poe’s satires and Hawthorne’s Zenobia of The BZitlzeduZe Romance?* Although in 1838 Miss Fuller was not yet Poe’s only serious...