Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Diaries, Letters, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies (Unabridged)
Diaries, Letters, and a Literary LegacyBy Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne, F. P. Stearns, G. P. Lathrop
Length139h 5m
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This capacious unabridged anthology reconstructs Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and imaginative stature through diaries, correspondence, reminiscences, criticism, and biography. Its documentary intimacy meets a striking range of nineteenth-century prose: private observation, familial recollection, literary appraisal, and interpretive narrative. Hawthorne's own records illuminate the habits and tensions behind his fiction, while the volume's most consequential critical materials place his romance, symbolism, and moral ambiguity within the development of American literature. The collection gathers Hawthorne alongside writers and commentators bound to his legacy by kinship, friendship, and literary inheritance. Herman Melville's searching response to Hawthorne registers the force of his "darkness" upon the American Renaissance; Julian Hawthorne supplies the distinctive perspective of a son negotiating memory and myth; and F. P. Stearns and G. P. Lathrop contribute formative biographical and critical accounts. Together, these voices reveal how Hawthorne became central to debates about romance, realism, Puritan history, and national literary identity. Ideal for students, scholars, and general readers, this volume offers an unusually rich encounter with both an author and the making of an authorial reputation. Its juxtaposition of primary testimony and later interpretation encourages readers to test biography against art, remembrance against criticism, and private life against public genius.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length139 hrs 5 mins
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Publish dateMay 27, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature (Annotated)
2Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Diaries, Letters, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies (Unabridged)
3Letters
4Browne’s Folly (a letter for the Essex Institute)
5Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody): Volume I (pt. 1)
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6Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody): Volume I (pt. 2)
7Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody): Volume II (pt. 1)
8Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody): Volume II (pt. 2)
9Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody): Volume II (pt. 3)
10Letter to the Editor of the Literary Review
11Memoirs
12American Notebooks (Volume I & II)
13AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 1)
14AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 2)
15AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 3)
16AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME II (pt. 1)
17AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME II (pt. 2)
18AMERICAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME II (pt. 3)
19English Notebooks (Volume I & II)
20ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 1)
21ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 2)
22ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 3)
23ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 4)
24ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 5)
25ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 6)
26ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME II (pt. 1)
27ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME II (pt. 2)
28ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME II (pt. 3)
29ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME II (pt. 4)
30ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME II (pt. 5)
31French and Italian Notebooks (Volume I & II)
32FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 1)
33FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 2)
34FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 3)
35FRENCH AND ITALIAN NOTEBOOKS: VOLUME I (pt. 4)
36HAWTHORNE’S NOTEBOOKS IN FRANCE AND ITALY: VOLUME II (pt. 1)
37HAWTHORNE’S NOTEBOOKS IN FRANCE AND ITALY: VOLUME II (pt. 2)
38HAWTHORNE’S NOTEBOOKS IN FRANCE AND ITALY: VOLUME II (pt. 3)
39HAWTHORNE’S NOTEBOOKS IN FRANCE AND ITALY: VOLUME II (pt. 4)
40Biographies and Reminiscences of Hawthorne
41The Life and Genius of Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns
42PREFACE
43CHAPTER I SALEM AND THE HATHORNES: 1630-1800
44CHAPTER II BOYHOOD OF HAWTHORNE: 1804-1821
45CHAPTER III BOWDOIN COLLEGE: 1821-1825.
46CHAPTER IV LITTLE MISERY: 1825-1835
47CHAPTER V EOS AND EROS: 1835-1839
48CHAPTER VI PEGASUS AT THE CART: 1839-1841
49CHAPTER VII HAWTHORNE AS A SOCIALIST: 1841-1842
50CHAPTER VIII CONCORD AND THE OLD MANSE: 1842-1845
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