The moral picturesque : studies in Hawthorne's fiction / by Darrel Abel
1988, 1st edition. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #408977
ISBN: 0911198911
Physical description; xi, 324 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The system of life -- Ghostland and the jurisdiction of veracity -- Our common nature -- Marbles and bubbles: "this troublesome mortality" -- Hawthorne's qualified transcendentalism -- Illusive credence -- The play of imagination -- The stony excrescence of prose -- Visions that seem real -- The loom of fiction -- Giving lustre to gray shadows: prospero's potent art -- Metonymic symbols: black glove and pink ribbon -- "A vast deal of human sympathy" -- "The strong division-lines of nature" -- Hester: "in the dark labyrinth of mind" -- Pearl: "The scarlet letter endowed with life" -- Chillingworth: the devil in Boston -- Dimmesdale: fugitive from wrath -- The house of the seven gables: "a long drama of wrong and retribution" -- The blithedale romance: "a counterfeit arcadia" -- The marble farm: "a masque of love and death". Subjects; Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 Criticism and interpretation. Didactic fiction, American History and criticism. Picturesque, The, in literature. Ethics in literature. Didactic fiction, American History and criticism. Picturesque, The, in literature. Ethics in literature.
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