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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Cambridge Companion To Nathaniel Hawthorne by Edited by Richard H. Millington
The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 2004, offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthornes fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies. In commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthornes writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essays explore Hawthornes art in relation to a stimulating array of issues and approaches. The essays reveal how Hawthornes work explores understandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood and selfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity. An Introduction and a selected bibliography will help students and teachers understand how Hawthorne has been a crucial figure for each generation of readers of American literature.show more