Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Familyvolume 24

ISBN-13: 9780520201552 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 331 str.

Jr. T. Walter Herbert; Walter T. Herbert

Opis

The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne--for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness--was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.