The Blithedale Romance: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton

The Blithedale Romance: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

This new Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorneâ€™s innovative 1852 novel helps readers navigate and appreciate its elusive plot, powerful characters, and maddening narrator.
This Norton Critical Edition of The Blithedale Romance is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely considered the best available edition. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations to help readers with Hawthorneâ€™s many historical and literary references as well as with other possible sources of difficulty in the text.

â€œContextsâ€ is thematically organized and includes a rich and varied selection of materials, both public and private, focusing on Hawthorneâ€™s inspirations for the novel. Included are letters, excerpts from journals, published accounts of Brook Farm and the growth of antebellum social reform, Hawthorneâ€™s letters to Sophia Peabody and Louisa Hawthorne about his first days at Brook Farm, and later letters describing his growing reservations about and decision to leave the utopian community. The Blithedale Romance raises interesting questions about the role of women, the popularity of mesmerism, and the growth of cities in mid-nineteenth-century America. Margaret Fuller, Charles Baudelaire, and Hawthorne, among others, provide invaluable insight.

â€œCriticismâ€ begins with major contemporary reviews by Herman Melville, William B. Pike, George S. Hillard, James T. Fields, Henry Fothergill Chorley, and others that suggest The Blithedale Romanceâ€™s initial reception. â€œSelections from Classic Studiesâ€ reprints key excerpts from influential essays published through the 1970s, including those by Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Irving Howe, and James McIntosh.

â€œRecent Criticismâ€ collects a striking range of scholarly interpretation by Nina Baym, Joel Pfister, Gillian Brown, Richard H. Brodhead, Lauren Berlant, Russ Castronovo, Robert S. Levine, and Richard H. Millington.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2010-12-20
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393928617

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2010-12-20
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393928617

The Blithedale Romance: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

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