Nathaniel Hawthorne's tales : authoritative texts, backgrounds, criticism / selected and edited by James McIntosh.

Author/creator Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Other author McIntosh, James, 1934-2021
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2013.
Descriptionxiii, 536 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

Uniform titleWorks. Selections. 2013
SeriesA Norton critical edition
Norton critical edition. ^A538572
Contents The Texts of the Tales. My Kinsman, Major Molineux ; Roger Malvin's Burial ; The Gentle Boy ; The Wives of the Dead ; Mrs. Hutchinson ; The Haunted Mind ; The Gray Champion ; Young Goodman Brown ; Wakefield ; The Ambitious Guest ; The May- Pole of Merry Mount ; The Minister's Black Veil ; The Man of Adamant ; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment ; Endicott and the Red Cross ; The Birthmark ; The Celestial Rail- road ; Earth's Holocaust ; The Artist of the Beautiful ; Drowne's Wooden Image ; Rappaccini's Daughter ; Ethan Brand ; Feathertop. -- A Note on the Text -- The Author on His Work -- Criticism.
Abstract "Nathaniel Hawthorne's best-loved tales are now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. This revised Norton Critical Edition brings together twenty-three of Hawthorne's tales in all their psychological and moral complexity. The Second Edition adds the early biographical sketch "Mrs. Hutchinson" as well as two tales, "The Wives of the Dead" and "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment." Each tale is accompanied by explanatory annotations. "The Author on His Work" contains the prefaces Hawthorne wrote for the three collections of tales published during his lifetime--The Old Manse, Twice-Told Tales, and The Snow Image. Also included are pertinent selections from his American Notebooks and relevant letters to, among others, Sophia Peabody, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Margaret Fuller. "Criticism" offers important contemporary assessments of Hawthorne's tales by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller (new to the Second Edition), James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, and Henry James. Modern criticism is well represented by twelve essays--four of them new to the Second Edition--on the tales' central issues. Contributors include Jorge Louis Borges, J. Hillis Miller, Judith Fetterley, Nina Baym, Leo Marx, and Martin Bidney, among others."--Publisher's website.
Local noteLittle-359778--305131065662
General noteIncludes twenty-three of Hawthorne's tales and sketches, a new preface, along with recent criticism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2012015266
ISBN9780393935646 (pbk.)
ISBN0393935647 (pbk.)
Standard identifier# 40021710531

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Joyner General Stacks PS1853 .M35 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold