Synopses & Reviews
The collected contemporary reviews of Hawthorne; assembled, edited, and introduced for the serious scholar.
Synopsis
This collection traces the construction of Hawthorneâs contemporaneous critical reputation as presented through notices and reviews, and includes a selective bibliography, and an introduction that surveys Hawthorneâs reception among American and British reviewers.
Synopsis
This compilation of notices and reviews of Nathaniel Hawthorneâs work covers the period from the publication of Fanshawe (1828) to the appearance of Dr Grimshawâs Secret (1882). Also featured are a critical introduction focusing on the thematic concerns of Hawthorneâs reviews, a selection of retrospective reviews, and a selective bibliography of other notices and reviews. An indispensable resource for the serious scholar of Hawthorne, the current collection offers a more complete critical record than has been available to date.
Table of Contents
Series editorâs preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A note on the selections; 1. Fanshawe (1828); 2.Tales and sketches in The Token and other annual or periodical publications, 1831 1837; 3. Twice-Told Tales (1837 1838); 4. The Gentle Boy (1839); 5. Grandfatherâs Chair, Famous Old People, and Liberty Tree (1841); 6. Biographical Stories for Children (1842); 7. Twice-Told Tales (second edition, 1842); 8. Mosses from an Old Manse (1846); 9. The Scarlet Letter (1850); 10. True Stories from History and Biography (1850); 11. The House of Seven Gables (1851); 12. Twice-told Tales (reissue, 1851); 13.Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1851); 14. The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales (1851); 15. The Blithedale Romance (1852); 16. Life of Franklin Pierce (1852); 17. Tanglewood Tales (1853); 18. Mosses from an Old Manse (reissue, 1854); 19. The Marble Faun (Transformation in England) (1860); 20. Our Old Home (1863); 21. Pansie (1864); 22. Passages from the American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868); 23. Passages from the American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1870); 24. Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1871); 25. Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life (1872); 26. Fanshawe and The Dolliver Romance (1876); 27. Dr. Grimshawâs Secret (1882); Retrospective and general-assessment essays, 1841 1879; Index.