The Blithedale Romance

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-55481-123-6
Verlag: Broadview Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Broadview Editions

Inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the “most romantic episode” in his life, The Blithedale Romance is one of the most engaging and complex of Hawthorne’s novels. Recounting the hopeful formation and slow fragmentation of a reform-minded socialist community in antebellum Massachusetts, the novel has increasingly preoccupied commentators on American literature and culture over the last few decades.

The editors’ new introduction helps the reader to negotiate Blithedale’s literary difficulties by offering a detailed reflection on the main problems confronted by past and present interpreters of the novel. Appendices expand upon the novel’s key historical themes: women’s emancipation, slavery, and religious reform.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Über Autor(innen)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) was an American novelist and short story writer.

Michael J. Colacurcio is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Luke Bresky is Associate Professor of English at St. Mary’s University College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.