1894. Hawthorne, who, like Edgar Allan Poe, took a dark view of human nature, was a central figure in the American Renaissance. His best-known works include The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Renouncing the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale community individually pursue egotistical paths that ultimately lead to tragedy. Hawthorne's tale both mourns and satirizes a rural idyll not unlike that of nineteenth-century America at large. The Blithedale Romance shadows the Brook Farm, in Roxbury, which was occupied and cultivated by a company of socialists. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. --This text refers to the Paperback edition
【目录】
Introduction
The Text of The Blithedale Romance
Backgrounds and Sources
HAWTHORNE'S LIFE AT BROOK FARM
Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Letters and Journals
Ralph \Valdo Emerson · From His Journals
HAWTHORNE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD MESMERISM
Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Letters
HAWTHORNE'S USE OF The American Notebooks IN The Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Journals
[Old Moodie]
[Priscilla]
[Coverdale's Hermitage]
[A Farewell to the Swine]
[Views from Coverdale's Window]
[A Boston Saloon]
[The Masqueraders]
[Zenobia's Drowning]
EMERSON'S VIEWS ON REFORM· ROMANTIC IDEALISM·
AND BROOK FARM
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England
Criticism
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
From the Christian Examiner (September 1852)
From the Westminster Review (October 1852)
From Brownson's Quarterly Review (October 1852)
From the Athenaeum (July 1852)
From the Westminster Review (October 1852)
From the Spectator (July 185z)
From the North British Review (November 1853 )
From Graham's Magazine (September 1852)
From the Atlantic Monthly (May 186o)
From the New Monthly Magazine (June 1853)
From the Westminster Review (October 185z)
From the American Whig Review (November 1852 )
From the American Whig Review (November 1852)
From Blackwood's Magazine (May 1855)
From the New Monthly Magazine (June 1853)
MODERN ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
Irving Howe · Hawthorne: Pastoral and Politics
Roy R. Male · The Pastoral \Vasteland:
The Blithedale Romance
A. N. Kaul · [Community and Society]
Leo B. Levy · The Blithedale Romance:
Hawthorne's "Voyage Through Chaos"
Hans-Joachim Lang · The Blithedale Romance:
A History of Ideas Approach
Philip Rahv · The Dark Lady of Salem
Barbara F. Lefcowitz and Allan B. Lefeowitz · Some Rents in the Veil: New Light on
Priscilla and Zenobia
Nina Baym · The Blithedale Romance:
A Radical Reading
Hyatt H. \Vaggoner · [Fire and Veils: The
Texture of The Blithedale Romance]
Frederick C. Crews · Turning the Affair into a Ballad
Kelley Griffith, Jr. · Form in The BlithedaIe Romance
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