Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) Book

The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthornefor their contemporaries a model of true love and married happinesswas also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.Read More

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  • 0520075870
  • 9780520075870
  • T.Walter Herbert
  • 15 February 1993
  • University of California Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 331
  • illustrated edition
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