NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Critical Assessments Edited by Brian Harding VOLUME IV The Critical Response General Assessments Since 1900 HELM INFORMATION
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, 1905 3 198. THEODORE T. MUNGER, 'The Centenary of Hawthorne', Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, LXVIII, n.s. 46, July 1904 8 199. W.C. BROWNELL, 'Hawthorne', Scribner's Magazine, XLIII, 1, January, 1908 11 200. T.S. ELIOT, 'The Hawthorne Aspect', Little Review, V, 4, August 1918 35 201. CARL VAN DOREN, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', The American Novel, New York 1921; rptd 1940 as The American Novel 1789-1939 41 202. MARTIN GREEN, 'The Hawthorne Myth: A Protest', Reappraisals: Some Commonsense Readings in American Literature, London,1963 59 203. EDWIN H. CADY,' "The Wizard Hand": Hawthorne, 1864-1900', Hawthorne Centenary Essays, ed. Roy Harvey Pearce, Columbus, Ohio, 1964 74 204. JANE TOMPKINS, 'Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation', Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction 1790-1860, New York, 1985 88 Hawthorne and Romance 205. RICHARD CHASE, 'Hawthorne and the Limits of Romance', The American Novel and its Tradition, New York, 1957 119
206. ROYHARVEYPEARCE, 'Romance and the Study of History', Hawthorne Centenary Essays, ed. Roy Harvey Pearce, Columbus, Ohio, 1964 128 207. HENRYNASH SMITH, 'Hawthorne: The Politics of Romance', Democracy and the Novel, Oxford, 1978 143 208. MICHAEL DAVITT BELL, 'The Death of the Spirit: Nathaniel Hawthorne', The Development of American Romance, Chicago, 1980 159 Hawthorne and Feminism 209. NEAL F. DOUBLEDAY, 'Hawthorne's Hester and Feminism', PMLA, UV, 1939 187 210. JUDITH FETTERLEY, 'Women Beware Science: "The Birthmark"', The Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fiction, Bloomington, 1978 192 211. NINA BAYM, 'Thwarted Nature: Nathaniel Hawthorne as Feminist', in Fritz Fleischmann, ed., American Novelists Revisited:Essays infeminist Criticism, Boston, 1982 201 212. LOUISE DESALVO, 'Feminists and Nathaniel Hawthorne', Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brighton, 1987 220 213. EMILYMILLER BUDICK, 'Hester's Skepticism, Hawthorne's Faith; or, What Does a Woman Doubt?', New Literary History, 22,1991 232 Hawthorne and Henry James 214. MARIUS BEWLEY, 'The American Problem: Hawthorne and Henry James', The ComplexFate, London, 1952 245 215. A. ROBERT LEE, 'The Mirrors of Biography: Henry James's Hawthorne', David Ellis, ed., Imitating Art: Essays in Biography, London, 1993 256 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, 1947 271 217. RICHARD HARTER FOGLE, 'The Light and the Dark', Hawthorne's Fiction: the Light and the Dark, Norman, Oklahoma, 1952 283 218. CHARLES FEIDELSON JR, from 'Four American Symbolists', vi
Symbolism and American Literature, Chicago, 1953 290 219. URSULA BRUMM, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Problem of Allegory', American Thought and Religious Typology, 1963; rptd New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1970 298 220. JOHN E. BECKER, 'Allegory and History', Hawthorne's Historical Allegory: An Examination of the American Conscience, New York, 1971 310 Hawthorne: Art and Belief 221. VERNON L. PARRINGTON, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne: Skeptic', Main Currents in American Thought, II, 1800 1860, The Romantic Revolution in America, New York, 1927 331 222. MILLICENT BELL,' "Refractions of the Artistic Nature" Fanshawe, Aylmer, Clifford, Ilbrahim', Hawthorne's View of the Artist, Albany, New York, 1966 338 223. HYATT H. WAGGONER, 'Art and Belief, Hawthorne Centenary Essays, 1964; rptd in The Presence of Hawthorne, Baton Rouge and London, 1979 352 General Assessments 224. PAUL ELMER MORE, 'The Solitude of Nathaniel Hawthorne', Atlantic Monthly, LXXXVIII, November 1901, rptd in Shelburne Essays: First Series, New York, 1904 373 225. PHILIP RAHV, 'The Dark Lady of Salem', Partisan Review, VIII, 1941 388 226. LAWRENCE SARGENT HALL, 'The Decade between Theory and Practice', Hawthorne, Critic of Society, Yale Studies in English, 99,1944 404 227. EDWARD H. DAVIDSON, 'The Keen Edge and the Blunt', Hawthorne's Last Phase, Hamden, Connecticut, 1949 423 228. Q.D. LEAVIS, 'Hawthorne as Poet: Part I', SewaneeReview, LIX, 1951 438 229. R.W.B. LEWIS, 'The Return into Time: Hawthorne', The American Adam. Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition in The Nineteenth Century, Chicago, 1955 455 230. RUDOLPH VON ABELE,'A General View', The Death of the Artist: A Study ofhawthorne's Disintegration, The Hague, 1955 470 231. FREDERICK CREWS, 'The Sin of Art', The Sins ofthefathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes, New York, 1966, rptd Berkeley, 1989 484 vii
232. BARTON LEVI ST ARMAND, 'Hawthorne's "Haunted Mind": A Subterranean Drama of the Self, Criticism, XIII, Winter 1971 495 233. HARRYLEVIN, from 'The Skeleton in the Closet', ThePowerof Blackness: Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, 1953; rptd New York, 1976 514 234. TAYLOR STOEHR, 'The Mad Scientist', Hawthorne's Mad Scientists, Hamden, Connecticut, 1978 531 235. RITA K. GOLLIN, 'The Writer as Dreamer', Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Truth of Dreams, Baton Rouge, 1979 552 236. LARZER ZIFF, 'The Great Conservative: Hawthorne and America', Literary Democracy, New York, 1981 577 237. DONALD A. RINGE, 'Nathaniel Hawthorne', American Gothic- Imagination and Reason in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Lexington 1982 594 238. DAVID S. REYNOLDS, 'Hawthorne's Cultural Demons', Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age ofemerson and Melville, New York, 1988 617 vni