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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jana L Argersinger; Leland S Person |
ISBN: | 9780820330969 0820330965 9780820327518 0820327514 |
OCLC Number: | 180081274 |
Description: | xiv, 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Hawthorne and Melville: writing, relationship, and missing letters / Jana L. Argersinger, Leland S. Person -- Mr. Omoo and the Hawthornes: the biographical background / Laurie Robertson-Lorant -- Hawthorne and Melville; or, the ambiguities / Brenda Wineapple -- "The ugly Socrates": Melville, Hawthorne, and the varieties of homoerotic experience / Robert Milder -- "Ineffable socialities": Melville, Hawthorne, and masculine ambivalence in the antebellum marketplace / Gale Temple -- Italy, the Civil War, and the politics of friendship / Dennis Berthold -- Letters on foolscap / Wyn Kelley -- Hawthorne and Melville in the shoals: "Agatha," the trials of authorship, and the dream of collaboration / Wyn Kelley -- "Shanties of chapters and essays": rewriting Moby-Dick / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Genealogical fictions: race in the house of the seven gables and Pierre / Robert S. Levine -- In the Whale's wake: Melville and The Blithedale romance / Thomas R. Mitchell -- "In old Rome's Pantheon": Hawthorne, Melville, and the two republics / Richard Hardack -- Hawthorne, Melville, and the spirits / Ellen Weinauer -- Alienated affections: Hawthorne and Melville's trans-intimate relationship / Christopher Castiglia. |
Responsibility: | edited by Jana L. Argersinger and Leland S. Person. |
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Abstract:
A collection of twelve essays that focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. It also covers topics such as professional competitiveness; Melville's search for a father figure; and, masculine ambivalence in the marketplace.
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