NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Critical Assessments

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1 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Critical Assessments Edited by Brian Harding VOLUME IV The Critical Response General Assessments Since 1900 HELM INFORMATION

2 Contents VOLUME IV: The Critical Response General Assessments Since 1900 Hawthorne's Reputation 197. JULIA WARD HOWE, 'Centenary Address', Celebration at the Wayside, Concord, July 1904, in Hawthorne Centenary, Boston, THEODORE T. MUNGER, 'The Centenary of Hawthorne', Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, LXVIII, n.s. 46, July W.C. BROWNELL, 'Hawthorne', Scribner's Magazine, XLIII, 1, January, T.S. ELIOT, 'The Hawthorne Aspect', Little Review, V, 4, August CARL VAN DOREN, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', The American Novel, New York 1921; rptd 1940 as The American Novel MARTIN GREEN, 'The Hawthorne Myth: A Protest', Reappraisals: Some Commonsense Readings in American Literature, London, EDWIN H. CADY,' "The Wizard Hand": Hawthorne, ', Hawthorne Centenary Essays, ed. Roy Harvey Pearce, Columbus, Ohio, JANE TOMPKINS, 'Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation', Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction , New York, Hawthorne and Romance 205. RICHARD CHASE, 'Hawthorne and the Limits of Romance', The American Novel and its Tradition, New York,

3 206. ROYHARVEYPEARCE, 'Romance and the Study of History', Hawthorne Centenary Essays, ed. Roy Harvey Pearce, Columbus, Ohio, HENRYNASH SMITH, 'Hawthorne: The Politics of Romance', Democracy and the Novel, Oxford, MICHAEL DAVITT BELL, 'The Death of the Spirit: Nathaniel Hawthorne', The Development of American Romance, Chicago, Hawthorne and Feminism 209. NEAL F. DOUBLEDAY, 'Hawthorne's Hester and Feminism', PMLA, UV, JUDITH FETTERLEY, 'Women Beware Science: "The Birthmark"', The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Bloomington, NINA BAYM, 'Thwarted Nature: Nathaniel Hawthorne as Feminist', in Fritz Fleischmann, ed., American Novelists Revisited:Essays infeminist Criticism, Boston, LOUISE DESALVO, 'Feminists and Nathaniel Hawthorne', Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brighton, EMILYMILLER BUDICK, 'Hester's Skepticism, Hawthorne's Faith; or, What Does a Woman Doubt?', New Literary History, 22, Hawthorne and Henry James 214. MARIUS BEWLEY, 'The American Problem: Hawthorne and Henry James', The ComplexFate, London, A. ROBERT LEE, 'The Mirrors of Biography: Henry James's Hawthorne', David Ellis, ed., Imitating Art: Essays in Biography, London, Hawthorne and Allegory and Symbolism 216. YVOR WINTERS, 'Maule's Curse or Hawthorne and the Problem of Allegory', American Review, 1937, rptd, In Defense of Reason, New York, RICHARD HARTER FOGLE, 'The Light and the Dark', Hawthorne's Fiction: the Light and the Dark, Norman, Oklahoma, CHARLES FEIDELSON JR, from 'Four American Symbolists', vi

4 Symbolism and American Literature, Chicago, URSULA BRUMM, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Problem of Allegory', American Thought and Religious Typology, 1963; rptd New Brunswick, New Jersey, JOHN E. BECKER, 'Allegory and History', Hawthorne's Historical Allegory: An Examination of the American Conscience, New York, Hawthorne: Art and Belief 221. VERNON L. PARRINGTON, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne: Skeptic', Main Currents in American Thought, II, , The Romantic Revolution in America, New York, MILLICENT BELL,' "Refractions of the Artistic Nature" Fanshawe, Aylmer, Clifford, Ilbrahim', Hawthorne's View of the Artist, Albany, New York, HYATT H. WAGGONER, 'Art and Belief, Hawthorne Centenary Essays, 1964; rptd in The Presence of Hawthorne, Baton Rouge and London, General Assessments 224. PAUL ELMER MORE, 'The Solitude of Nathaniel Hawthorne', Atlantic Monthly, LXXXVIII, November 1901, rptd in Shelburne Essays: First Series, New York, PHILIP RAHV, 'The Dark Lady of Salem', Partisan Review, VIII, LAWRENCE SARGENT HALL, 'The Decade between Theory and Practice', Hawthorne, Critic of Society, Yale Studies in English, 99, EDWARD H. DAVIDSON, 'The Keen Edge and the Blunt', Hawthorne's Last Phase, Hamden, Connecticut, Q.D. LEAVIS, 'Hawthorne as Poet: Part I', SewaneeReview, LIX, R.W.B. LEWIS, 'The Return into Time: Hawthorne', The American Adam. Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition in The Nineteenth Century, Chicago, RUDOLPH VON ABELE,'A General View', The Death of the Artist: A Study ofhawthorne's Disintegration, The Hague, FREDERICK CREWS, 'The Sin of Art', The Sins ofthefathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes, New York, 1966, rptd Berkeley, vii

5 232. BARTON LEVI ST ARMAND, 'Hawthorne's "Haunted Mind": A Subterranean Drama of the Self, Criticism, XIII, Winter HARRYLEVIN, from 'The Skeleton in the Closet', ThePowerof Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, 1953; rptd New York, TAYLOR STOEHR, 'The Mad Scientist', Hawthorne's Mad Scientists, Hamden, Connecticut, RITA K. GOLLIN, 'The Writer as Dreamer', Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Truth of Dreams, Baton Rouge, LARZER ZIFF, 'The Great Conservative: Hawthorne and America', Literary Democracy, New York, DONALD A. RINGE, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', American Gothic- Imagination and Reason in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Lexington DAVID S. REYNOLDS, 'Hawthorne's Cultural Demons', Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age ofemerson and Melville, New York, vni