Dearest Beloved The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family |
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| Author:
| Herbert, T. Walter |
| Series title: | The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-520-20155-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1995 |
| Publisher: | University of California Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $36.95 |
Book Description:
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The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne-for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness-was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction,...
More DescriptionThe marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne-for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness-was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.