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New essays on the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Semrau, Janusz

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New essays on the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Semrau, Janusz

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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 : A Study in Social Values by Davis, David Brion

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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 : A Study in Social Values by Davis, David Brion

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Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form : Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America / by Reid, Margaret (Margaret K.)

Table of Contents: “…Imagining cultural origins in James Fenimore Cooper's The spy -- History's revolutions in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Traces of a vanished world" in Owen Wister's The Virginian -- Conclusion: The storyteller's legacy from Quentin Compson to Oedipa Maas.…”
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Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form : Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America / by Reid, Margaret (Margaret K.)

Table of Contents: “…Imagining cultural origins in James Fenimore Cooper's The spy -- History's revolutions in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter -- "Traces of a vanished world" in Owen Wister's The Virginian -- Conclusion: The storyteller's legacy from Quentin Compson to Oedipa Maas.…”
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Talking shop the language of craft in an age of consumption / by Betjemann, Peter J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The ghost writer: the canonization of Benvenuto Cellini -- Legends of labor: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the voice of craft -- The nature of gothic: artisanship, intuition, and the representation of expertise -- In the American grain: Gustav Stickley and the artisanal type -- The syntax of the eye: author, artisan, and the "more laboring ages" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton -- Conclusion.…”
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Talking shop the language of craft in an age of consumption / by Betjemann, Peter J., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The ghost writer: the canonization of Benvenuto Cellini -- Legends of labor: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the voice of craft -- The nature of gothic: artisanship, intuition, and the representation of expertise -- In the American grain: Gustav Stickley and the artisanal type -- The syntax of the eye: author, artisan, and the "more laboring ages" in Henry James's The spoils of Poynton -- Conclusion.…”
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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

Table of Contents: “…"We have seen strange things to day" : the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables -- "A wilderness of error" : Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes -- Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother" : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather -- "The story was in the gaps" : Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton.…”
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America's Gothic Fiction : The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana / by Baker, Dorothy Zayatz

Table of Contents: “…"We have seen strange things to day" : the history and artistry of Cotton Mather's remarkables -- "A wilderness of error" : Edgar Allan Poe's revision of providential tropes -- Cotton Mather as the "old New England grandmother" : Harriet Beecher Stowe and the female historian -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and the "singular mind" of Cotton Mather -- "The story was in the gaps" : Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Edith Wharton.…”
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Calvinist humor in American literature by Dunne, Michael, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist humor -- Calvinist humor and the American puritans: "the just hand of God" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "that would be a jest indeed" -- Herman Melville: "in no world but a fallen one" -- Mark Twain: "the trouble about special providences" -- William Faulkner: "waiting for the part to begin which he would not like" -- Ernest Hemingway: "isn't it pretty to think so?" …”
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Calvinist humor in American literature by Dunne, Michael, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Calvinist humor -- Calvinist humor and the American puritans: "the just hand of God" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: "that would be a jest indeed" -- Herman Melville: "in no world but a fallen one" -- Mark Twain: "the trouble about special providences" -- William Faulkner: "waiting for the part to begin which he would not like" -- Ernest Hemingway: "isn't it pretty to think so?" …”
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Alone in America the stories that matter / by Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.…”
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Alone in America the stories that matter / by Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Does nobody here know Rip Van Winkle? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne dissects betrayal -- Louisa May Alcott meets Mark Twain over the young face of change -- Henry James and Zora Neale Hurston answer to defeat -- Edith Wharton's anatomy of personal breakdown -- Midpoint: the lords of life revisited -- The immigrant novel: fear and identity in America -- William Faulkner and Toni Morrison plot racial difference -- Saul Bellow observes old age -- Don DeLillo and Marilynne Robinson mourn loss -- Walt Whitman finds the courage to be.…”
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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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Home as Found : Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature / by Sundquist, Eric J.

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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

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