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The house of the seven gables, an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism, Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Seymour L. Gross

Label
The house of the seven gables, an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism, Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Seymour L. Gross
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-484)
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The house of the seven gables
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
520078
Responsibility statement
Nathaniel Hawthorne ; edited by Seymour L. Gross
Series statement
Norton critical editions
Sub title
an authoritative text, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism
Summary
Literary criticism and interpretation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work: The House of the Seven Gables. "The four Pyncheons live inside the blighted house: Hepzibah, an elderly recluse, Clifford, her feeble-minded brother, Phoebe, their young country cousin ... and Jaffrey, a devil incarnate whose greedy quest for secret wealth is marked by murder and terrible vengeance from a restless grave."
Table Of Contents
The text of The house of the seven gables (The old Pyncheon family ; The little shop-window ; The first customer ; A day behind the counter ; May and November ; Maule's well ; The guest ; The Pyncheon of to-day ; Clifford and Phoebe ; The Pyncheon-garden ; The arched window ; The daguerreotypist ; Alice Pyncheon ; Phoebe's good bye ; The scowl and smile ; Clifford's chamber ; The flight of two owls ; Governor Pyncheon ; Alice's posies ; The flower of Eden ; The departure) -- Passages from The American notebooks (The downward path of great houses ; Marriage and the end of family hatreds ; The organ-grinder's monkey ; The tyranny of the past ; The locomotive ; The station) -- Love letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Mesmerism) -- The history of Massachusetts (Maule's curse) / Thomas Hutchinson -- Annals of Salem (A Salem murder) / Joseph B. Felt -- Hawthorne's daguerreotypist : scientist, artist, reformer / Alfred H. Marks -- The house of the seven gables : marble and mud / Evert A. Duyckinck -- The affluence of fancy / Henry F. Chorley -- The house of the seven gables : humor and pathos combined / Edwin P. Whipple -- The house of the seven gables / Henry James -- The house of the seven gables and American history / F.O. Matthiessen -- The social ethic / Lawrence S. Hall -- Shadow and substance : language and meaning in The house of the seven gables / Clark Griffith -- Holgrave's curious conversion / Rudolph Von Abele -- The ascending spiral curve / Hyatt H. Waggoner -- Who killed Judge Pyncheon? The role of the imagination in The house of the seven gables / Alfred H. Marks -- Evolution and regeneration : The house of the seven gables / Roy R. Male -- Aristocracy versus democracy and the chain of humanity / Marius Bewley -- Structure and theme in The house of the seven gables / William B. Dillingham -- The house of the seven gables : the religion of love / Alfred J. Levy -- Paradise regained at Maule's Well / Daniel G. Hoffman
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