The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne-for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness-was 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.
| ISBN: | 9780520201552 |
| Publication date: | 13th March 1995 |
| Author: | T Walter Herbert |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 331 pages |
| Series: | The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Semiotics / semiology Literature: history and criticism |
The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne-for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness-was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T.
Dearest Beloved features in the following genres: Literary theory, Semiotics / semiology, Literature: history and criticism
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Dearest Beloved was written by T Walter Herbert and published by University of California Press
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