...Waldo H. Dunn Copyright © 1929 by Duke University Press 1929 JAMIE BOSWELL S THORN IN THE FLESH WALDO H. DUNN College of Wooster WHOM DID James Boswell dislike most? Even to ex­ pert Boswellians that question, I fancy, may at first seem unanswerable. We know that the irrepressible little Scot...

...Louis J. Budd Julian Green and the Thorn of Puritanism . By Stokes Samuel . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1955 . Pp. xiv , 155 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Book Reviews 403 Viola, the Duchess of New Dorp: A Biography of Viola Roseboro . By Jane...

...Günter Grass; Christian Thorne Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Gunter Grass The Lonesome Capitalist writer which is to say, a man without a mandate takes it upon himself to speak of something he is in danger of losing his coun­ try this circumscribed something whose defi­...

...Christian Thorne The virtue of a psychological account of National Socialism is that it invites us to think of fascism as something other than an ideology. A person doesn’t become a fascist by reciting a creed or subscribing to a set doctrine. Even so, The Authoritarian Personality draws...

..., therefore, cannot be taken as deprecatory of Melville unless it is taken as equally deprecatory of Hawthorne. It was Haw­ thorne s dilemma as well as Melville s and indeed the dilemma of many other serious minds to find it difficult either to believe or to be comfortable in unbelief. Their friendship began...

... of Hawthorne criticism. While reading the first four chapters of part II, I became disenchanted. Three of these chapters on how Haw­ thorne s artistry responded to (1) religion, (2) history, and (3) Puri­ tanism proved so nearly alike or parallel in treatment and theme that I damned the editor for allowing...

... into their hearts . . . and retaining no emotion peculiar to himself. He was a psychoanalyzed psychoanalyst, a Coverdale chronically observ­ ing, properly insecure in his occupation, made to sense what Haw­ thorne in a letter to Longfellow had noted about himself: I have been carried apart from the main current...

... criticism is urbane and extremely well informed. It throws a hard, bright light over Haw­ thorne s intention, his accomplishment, and his shortcomings. It brings Hawthorne alive, not so much the man, who may be unimportant, but the writer, who certainly is not. Mr. Van Doren is an artist in his own right...

... of a hopeless, or even of a predominantly melancholy, feel­ ing about the human soul. 1 The widespread and enduring influ­ ence of this view is indicated by Mark Van Doren s echo of these ideas almost three-quarters of a century later. He stresses Haw­ thorne s unique achievement in the historical tale...

...; The weather is so mad with white From sky down to the clod! If but one thing were so, Lilac, or thorn out there, It would not be, indeed, So hard to bear. The weather has gone mad with white; The cloud, the highway touch; White lilac is enough; White thorn too much! An immediate offspring of this fine lyric...

... Secret: An Un-Told Tale. By Philip Young. Boston: David R. Godine Publishers, 1984. Pp. 3, 183. $15.95. Twelve years since, in Three Bags Full, Philip Young hinted he knew Haw­ thorne s secret, and what we have here is the Fourth Bag, stuffed like the others with wool from a black sheep. As gathered...

... would have been useful. Fortunately, the chapter headings, like the rest of the book, are done with explicit fullness. louis j. budd Julian Green and the Thorn of Puritanism. By Samuel Stokes. New York: King s Crown Press, 1955. Pp. xiv, 155. $3.00. Is it superfluous to remind readers that Julian Green...

... Williams s Wooden Horse and the play and movie Stalag ij. Airey Neave was one of the hundreds of British officers captured in Flanders. He escaped first from a camp in Thorn and then from the famous escape proof officers camp in Colditz. He reached Switzerland in January, 1942. An underground railway...

... them in Conrad and Gide? P. F. Baum. A Concordance of Walt Whitman s Leaves of Grass and Se­ lected Prose Writings. Fascicle I. By Edwin Harold Eby. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1949. Pp. xiii, 256. $4.00. One of the several thorns in the flesh of the student of Walt Whitman is the fact...

... against Haw­ thorne likewise, and it derived, says Honig, from romantic revolt against the realistic movements in literature of the later Renaissance and the En­ lightenment. Neoclassical art is the culprit that misappropriated the ...

..., the most famous examples of which are Eric Williams s Wooden Horse and the play and movie Stalag ij. Airey Neave was one of the hundreds of British officers captured in Flanders. He escaped first from a camp in Thorn and then from the famous escape proof officers camp in Colditz. He reached Switzerland...

... Haw­ thorne. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press. [1977]. Pp. ix, 803. $26.50. At his death in 1864, Hawthorne left manuscript fragments of two romances he had struggled to write in his last years. The three pub­ lished in Volume XII are drafts of a romance about an American s return to claim...

...: Oxford Univer­ sity Press, 1978. Pp. viii, 204. $13.95. Six of the eight chapters in this volume are fine essays on Haw­ thorne, Melville, Mark Twain, Howells, and Henry James (two chap­ ters). Mr. Smith has brought to these essays the breadth of view in conjunction with acute close reading that we have...