Salem Is My Dwelling Place: Life Of Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Edwin Haviland Miller
University of Iowa Press, 1992 Cloth: 978-0-87745-332-1 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-152-4 | Paper: 978-0-87745-381-9 Library of Congress Classification PS1881.M48 1991 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.3
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In one of his public disavowals of autobiography, Nathaniel Hawthorne informed his readers that external traits "hide the man, instead of displaying him," directing them instead to "look through the whole range of his fictitious characters, good and evil, in order to detect any of his essential traits." In this multidimensional biography of America's first great storyteller, Edwin Haviland Miller answers Hawthorne's challenge and reveals the inner landscapes of this modest, magnetic man who hid himself in his fiction. Thomas Woodson hails Miller's account as "the best biography of this most elusive of American authors."
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Edwin Haviland Miller is professor of English emeritus at New York University and editor of the six-volume Correspondence of Walt Whitman. Author of Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Iowa), he has also written a biography of Herman Melville and books and articles about other nineteenth-century American authors.
REVIEWS
"Psychologically probing (but free of all jargon), Miller's elegantly written study gives us a fresh, sympathetic picture of an immensely complex, repressed man."—Library Journal
"The best, and most thorough, biography yet of Hawthorne, setting the standard against which all others will be measured."—Kirkus Reviews
"A rewarding new biography."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prolog: The Contemporary Portrait
1.
“Salem Is My Dwelling Place”
2.
The Heritage: The Hathornes and the Mannings
3.
“The Gentle Boy”
4.
“Living upon Uncle Robert”
5.
Bowdoin College: Venturing into the World
6.
Intercourse with the World: Fanshawe
7.
“Castle Dismal”
8.
Intercourse with the World: The Early Tales
9.
The Peabodys
10.
Two Sisters in Love
11.
Mary Silsbee: “Star of Salem”
12.
The Comedy of Manners Ends Happily
13.
Port-Admiral at the Boston Custom-House
14.
“Thou Art My Type of Womanly Perfection”
15.
Brook Farm: “That Abominable Gold-Mine”
16.
“I Take This Dove in Bed and Board”
17.
Eden in Concord
18.
Margaret Fuller in Concord
19.
Intercourse with the World: Mosses from an Old Manse
20.
Salem, Hail and Farewell
21.
Intercourse with the World: The Scarlet Letter
22.
The Berkshires, 1850: Enter Herman Melville
23.
Intercourse with the World: The House of the Seven Gables
24.
Lenox, 1851: Intimations
25.
“Big Hearts Strike Together”
26.
Intercourse with the World: The Blithedale Romance
27.
President Pierce's “Prime Minister”
28.
England: “I Do Not Take Root Anywhere”
29.
Italy: “Dim Reflections in My Inward Mirror”
30.
Intercourse with the World: The Marble Faun
31.
Concord, 1860–1862
32.
The Crack-up: The Unfinished Romances
33.
“The Great, Generous, Brave Heart Beat No More”
Epilog:
“The Great Absence”
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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Salem Is My Dwelling Place: Life Of Nathaniel Hawthorne
by Edwin Haviland Miller
University of Iowa Press, 1992 Cloth: 978-0-87745-332-1 eISBN: 978-1-58729-152-4 Paper: 978-0-87745-381-9
In one of his public disavowals of autobiography, Nathaniel Hawthorne informed his readers that external traits "hide the man, instead of displaying him," directing them instead to "look through the whole range of his fictitious characters, good and evil, in order to detect any of his essential traits." In this multidimensional biography of America's first great storyteller, Edwin Haviland Miller answers Hawthorne's challenge and reveals the inner landscapes of this modest, magnetic man who hid himself in his fiction. Thomas Woodson hails Miller's account as "the best biography of this most elusive of American authors."
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Edwin Haviland Miller is professor of English emeritus at New York University and editor of the six-volume Correspondence of Walt Whitman. Author of Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Iowa), he has also written a biography of Herman Melville and books and articles about other nineteenth-century American authors.
REVIEWS
"Psychologically probing (but free of all jargon), Miller's elegantly written study gives us a fresh, sympathetic picture of an immensely complex, repressed man."—Library Journal
"The best, and most thorough, biography yet of Hawthorne, setting the standard against which all others will be measured."—Kirkus Reviews
"A rewarding new biography."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Prolog: The Contemporary Portrait
1.
“Salem Is My Dwelling Place”
2.
The Heritage: The Hathornes and the Mannings
3.
“The Gentle Boy”
4.
“Living upon Uncle Robert”
5.
Bowdoin College: Venturing into the World
6.
Intercourse with the World: Fanshawe
7.
“Castle Dismal”
8.
Intercourse with the World: The Early Tales
9.
The Peabodys
10.
Two Sisters in Love
11.
Mary Silsbee: “Star of Salem”
12.
The Comedy of Manners Ends Happily
13.
Port-Admiral at the Boston Custom-House
14.
“Thou Art My Type of Womanly Perfection”
15.
Brook Farm: “That Abominable Gold-Mine”
16.
“I Take This Dove in Bed and Board”
17.
Eden in Concord
18.
Margaret Fuller in Concord
19.
Intercourse with the World: Mosses from an Old Manse
20.
Salem, Hail and Farewell
21.
Intercourse with the World: The Scarlet Letter
22.
The Berkshires, 1850: Enter Herman Melville
23.
Intercourse with the World: The House of the Seven Gables
24.
Lenox, 1851: Intimations
25.
“Big Hearts Strike Together”
26.
Intercourse with the World: The Blithedale Romance
27.
President Pierce's “Prime Minister”
28.
England: “I Do Not Take Root Anywhere”
29.
Italy: “Dim Reflections in My Inward Mirror”
30.
Intercourse with the World: The Marble Faun
31.
Concord, 1860–1862
32.
The Crack-up: The Unfinished Romances
33.
“The Great, Generous, Brave Heart Beat No More”
Epilog:
“The Great Absence”
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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