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Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England
By (Author) Michael Davitt Bell
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
813.3
Hardback
268
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
539g
Three major conventional figures dominated Hawthorne's romances: the noble Founding Father, the "narrow Puritan," and the rebellious daughter. Daniel Bell examines the ways in which Hawthorne used these and other conventional characters to formulate his own sense of New England history. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library u