..., James Weldon Johnson, and Bret Harte. These literary consuls prompt us to think in new ways about the relation between literature and the state—and also about the various forms that national identification can take. Focusing in particular on the case of Nathaniel Hawthorne, I argue that it was while...

...—Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter,” Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno,” and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave —revealed the incoherence of “literature” as it gradually assumed its modern form. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 novella Nathaniel Hawthorne...

.... Macey David . New York : Picador , 1997 . Hawthorne Nathaniel . Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales . New York : Norton , 2003 . Greiman Jennifer . Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing . New York : Fordham UP , 2010 . Kant...

... on to discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The Marble Faun (1860), and concludes with a discussion of antebellum slave narratives, particularly A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845). The book's close readings of these canonical novels...

... , Nathaniel . The Blithedale Romance . New York: Penguin, 1982 . Hawthorne , Nathaniel . The Scarlet Letter . New York: Penguin, 1986 . Hendler , Glenn . Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2001...

... Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993 . Hawthorne , Nathaniel . The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Vol. 17 . The Letters, 1853–1856 . Ed. Thomas Woodson et al. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1987 . Jameson , Fredric...

... Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Fanny Fern, Harriet Jacobs, and James Fenimore Cooper are cast as “thought experiments on the new democratic reality” (20). The phrase “thought experiments” may be familiar to readers of Margolis's first book, The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth...

..., "an anthropomorphc version of the lifeless objects that nineteenth-century experts feminized in their efforts to protect their own secret identities and desires" (136). In the previous chapter, Briefel persuasively argues that Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun is a text that expresses American...

..., political theory in the guise of fiction. The book's title, as signaled in an epigraph, comes from Nathaniel Hawthorne's English Notebooks . Hawthorne describes a visit to the Gallery of British Painters, where he laments that the great quantity of pictures overwhelms him: “It seemed like throwing away...

..., Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In seven closely argued chapters, Rezek offers some important rethinking of the “provincial” as a literary category, how to conceive the transatlantic as more than a one-way traffic in cultural production in the nineteenth century, and why...

... to choose a favorite part of the book (deserted-island choices again), it might be this chapter's serious pastiche of New Historicism and contemporary American studies in the section titled “Slavery and The Scarlet Letter .” If new historicists turned anecdotes into conspiracy theories and made Nathaniel...

... of parsing the camera’s effects on the conception of similitude itself. Photos do feature in the works of Burrows’s chosen writers—Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright—and, in some cases, plots turn decisively on the strength of photographic...

... Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Old Apple-Dealer" to Stephen Crane's remarkable "The Broken-Down Vanu-also work to distinguish those crowds from a IIWE laudable alter- native. "In addition to figuring extremely impossible persons, crowd representations also supplied abundant if more subtle indications...

... If the Shoe Fits . . . Trollope and the Girl 268 patricia e. chu D(NA) Coding the Ethnic: Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex 278 amanda claybaugh The Consular Service and US Literature: Nathaniel...

... in the sixth and seventh chapters, where he studies early African American takes on interiorization in Martin Delany’s Blake and Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative 128 novel | spring 2011 and follows them with readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables...

... Planchette's Diary (1868) and Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Bertha and Lily (1854)—that take up the cultural and religious practices of spiritualism. Readers of this journal will likely be more familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne's skeptical interpretation of spiritualism in The Blithedale Romance (1852...

... into a marketing tool. When reading reit- erations of his thesis, readers might recall the acute awareness on the parts of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others that selling fiction is a tough racket in America. For many of them, the pressure to sell...

... . Hale Dorothy J. “Profits of Altruism: Caleb Williams and Arthur Mervyn.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 . 1 ( 1988 ): 47 – 69 . Hawthorne Nathaniel . “Lady Eleanore's Mantle.” Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches . New York : Library of America , 1996 . 652 – 66...

...-century materials of the book's final two chapters, The Scarlet Letter and Clotel , respectively, Silyn Roberts reads Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Wells Brown as authors who resist a biopolitical shift in midcentury political power by registering the subversive flow of a Foucauldian “population...

... literature and culture. Moving chronologically through the works of John James Audubon, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Eadweard Muybridge, Capture tells the story of what Traisnel calls “the shift from the hunt regime to the capture regime” over the course...