Bloom's Modern Critical Views - Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007) (269p) [Inua].pdf

Title: Nathaniel Hawthorne (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Editor: Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's Modern Critical Views
Hardcover: 269 pages
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (L) (April 2006)
Language: English
ISBN 0791093158
ISBN13: 9780791093153

Description:
Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world--from the English medievalists to contemporary writers- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom.

Editor’s Note
My Introduction considers Hawthorne in the context both of Emerson’s influence upon The Scarlet Letter and of the ambivalent responses by Henry James to the influences upon him of both Emerson and Hawthorne. After interpreting Hester as an Emersonian heroine, I go on to analyze Hawthorne’s superb final tale, “Feathertop.”
Millicent Bell examines Hawthorne’s three artist-heroes: Coverdale in The Blithedale Romance, Holgrave the writer in The House of the Seven Gables, and Kenyon the sculptor in The Marble Faun.
Hawthorne’s own psychology is traced in The House of the Seven Gables by Frederick C. Crews, while Jane Donahue Eberwein examines “The Custom-House” sketch as a thematic introduction to The Scarlet Letter, as does David C. Cody.
The Blithedale Romance is approached biographically by Edwin Haviland Miller, after which Samuel Coale disputes the historicism of Sacvan Bercovich as a wholly satisfactory way into Hawthornian romance.
Michael Dunne studies the relationships between Romanticism and Hawthorne’s tales, after which Joseph Flibbert considers Hawthorne’s representation of Judge Pyncheon in The House of the Seven Gables.
The defensive critique of The Scarlet Letter by Henry James prompts Dan McCall’s own account of the great novel, while David B. Kesterson reads The Marble Faun’s representation of the Roman Carnival as a kind of an apocalypse.
In this volume’s final essay, Richard Kopley uncovers the influence of the narrative poem “A Legend of Brittany,” by Hawthorne’s friend, James Russell Lowell, upon The Scarlet Letter.