Hawthorne and Melville

Released on by Jana L. Argersinger
preview-18

  • Hawthorne and Melville Book Detail

  • Author : Jana L. Argersinger
  • Release Date : 2008
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 396
  • ISBN 13 : 9780820327518
  • File Size : 58,58 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Hawthorne and Melville by Jana L. Argersinger PDF Summary

Book Description: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive tools such as queer theory, globalist studies, political and social ideology, marketplace analysis, psychoanalytical and philosophical applications to literature, masculinist theory, and critical studies of race, the twelve essays in this book focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between the two writers. Jana L. Argersinger and Leland S. Person introduce the volume with a lively summary of the known biographical facts of the two writers’ relationship and an overview of the relevant scholarship to date. Some of the essays that follow broach the possibility of sexual dimensions to the relationship, a question that “looms like a grand hooded phantom” over the field of Melville-Hawthorne studies. Questions of influence--Hawthorne’s on Moby-Dick and Pierre and Melville’s on The Blithedale Romance, to mention only the most obvious instances--are also discussed. Other topics covered include professional competitiveness; Melville’s search for a father figure; masculine ambivalence in the marketplace; and political-literary aspects of nationalism, transcendentalism, race, and other defining issues of Hawthorne and Melville’s times. Roughly half of the essays focus on biographical issues; the others take literary perspectives. The essays are informed by a variety of critical approaches, as well as by new historical insights and new understandings of the possibilities that existed for male friendships in nineteenth-century American culture.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Hawthorne and Melville books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Hawthorne and Melville

Hawthorne and Melville

File Size : 27,27 MB
Total View : 4668 Views
DOWNLOAD

Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive tools s

The Divine Magnet

The Divine Magnet

File Size : 78,78 MB
Total View : 7218 Views
DOWNLOAD

These letters are full of passion, humor, doubt, and spiritual yearning, and offer an intimate view of Melville's personality. Lyrical and effusive, they are li

The Whale: A Love Story

The Whale: A Love Story

File Size : 76,76 MB
Total View : 7548 Views
DOWNLOAD

A rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville’s emotionally c

The Corporeal Self

The Corporeal Self

File Size : 56,56 MB
Total View : 9121 Views
DOWNLOAD

The Corporeal Self argues that questions about identity, conceived in bodily terms, are not only relevant for Melville and Hawthorne, the two nineteenth-century