New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales by Millicent Bell

New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales by Millicent Bell

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New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales examines in detail some of Hawthorne's most important and most beloved stories. The essayists make fresh attempts to probe the complex meaning of these much-discussed works, utilising a variety of topical critical methods.

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New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales by Millicent Bell

New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales examines in detail some of Hawthorne's most important and most beloved stories such as Young Goodman Brown, Roger Malvin's Burial, The Minister's Black Veil, My Kinsman, Major Molineux, Rappaccini's Daughter, and Ethan Brand. The essayists make fresh attempts to probe the complex meaning of these much-discussed works, utilising a variety of topical critical methods. Millicent Bell's introduction analyses Hawthorne's early aspirations, places his writing in the context of contemporary audience expectations, and surveys the history of critical response to the tales from the writer's own time to our own.
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ISBN 13 9780521428682
ISBN 10 0521428688
Title New Essays on Hawthorne's Major Tales
Author Millicent Bell
Series The American Novel
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 1993-09-24
Number of pages 165
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