TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baym,Nina
TI  - The Shape of Hawthorne's Career
SN  - 9781501735684
AV  - PS1888 .B3
U1  - 813/.3 19
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - American Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. Beginnings, 1825-1834 --; 2. The Twice-told Tales Period, 1834-1839 --; 3. The Manse Decade, 1840-1849 --; 4. The Major Phase I, 1850 --; 5. The Major Phase II, 1851 --; 6. The Major Phase III, 1852-1853 --; 7. English and Italian Years, 1853-1859 --; 8. The Last Phase, 1860-1864 --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This gracefully written book considers all of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works, from Fanshawe through the unfinished romances of his last years, and establishes the pattern of his literary development. Ms. Baym brings the crucial facts of Hawthorne’s career into clear focus, and places the individual works within the total picture. Disputing some enduring critical pieties, she finds in Hawthorne a writer who experimented with a series of literary poses through which he tried both to discover himself and to please his audience. He realized late, she says, the paradox that the more he departed from conventional modes, the more "popular" his writing became. By looking discerningly at all of Hawthorne’s work as it unfolded, Ms. Baym produces compelling new insights into a major American writer and adds appreciably to our understanding of him
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735684
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501735684
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501735684/original
ER  -