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Bezig met laden... The Blithedale Romance [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.]door Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard H. Millington (Redacteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Efforts to read this frustrated a second time. First edition that I checked out had been rebound too tightly to read comfortably, this edition is missing pages. Fortunately the missing pages were only about 40 pages in--so not a great deal of time wasted. I may try again. A definite 5*****, especially with the Norton supplementary materials, which include selections from Hawthorne's letters as well as other materials pertaining to the Brook Farm communitarian experiment of the mid-1840s. As always, some critical articles are better than others, but this edition's articles generally get high marks from me (with one exception, Russ Castronovo's "The Half-Living Corpse: Females Mediums, Seances, and the Occult," which includes a good bit of rather confusing Marxist criticism). This edition, based on the "Centenary Edition" of Hawthorne's works, also includes three passages not appearing in the "Centenary Edition" but which the editor considered of interest (for example, a critique of the temperance movement) and marked appropriately for easy identification. 5***** not only to Norton but also to the novel itself, which is the one Hawthorne novel I've never read and am finally getting around to. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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This Norton Critical Edition of The Blithedale Romance is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely considered the best available edition. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations to help readers with Hawthorne's many historical and literary references as well as with other possible sources of difficulty in the text. "Contexts" is thematically organized and includes a rich and varied selection of materials, both public and private, focusing on Hawthorne's inspirations for the novel. Included are letters, excerpts from journals, published accounts of Brook Farm and the growth of antebellum social reform, Hawthorne's letters to Sophia Peabody and Louisa Hawthorne about his first days at Brook Farm, and later letters describing his growing reservations about and decision to leave the utopian community. The Blithedale Romance raises interesting questions about the role of women, the popularity of mesmerism, and the growth of cities in mid-nineteenth-century America. Margaret Fuller, Charles Baudelaire, and Hawthorne, among others, provide invaluable insight. "Criticism" begins with major contemporary reviews by Herman Melville, William B. Pike, George S. Hillard, James T. Fields, Henry Fothergill Chorley, and others that suggest The Blithedale Romance's initial reception. "Selections from Classic Studies" reprints key excerpts from influential essays published through the 1970s, including those by Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Irving Howe, and James McIntosh. "Recent Criticism" collects a striking range of scholarly interpretation by Nina Baym, Joel Pfister, Gillian Brown, Richard H. Brodhead, Lauren Berlant, Russ Castronovo, Robert S. Levine, and Richard H. Millington. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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