Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction
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Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary acuity, ambitious to reshape--in a sense to cure--the community he addresses. Through readings attentive to narrative strategy and alert to the emerging middle-class culture that was his audience, the book defines and describes Hawthornian Romance in a new way: not, in customary fashion, as the definitive...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691068763
ISBN13:9780691068763
Release Date:February 1992
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"
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