Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction
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Practicing Romance: Narrative Form and Cultural Engagement in Hawthorne's Fiction
By (Author) Richard H. Millington
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
813.3
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1992
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Paperback
246
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
425g
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Practicing Romance sets out to re-tell the story of Hawthorne's career, arguing that he is best understood as a cultural analyst of extraordinary acuity, ambitious to reshape--in a sense to cure--the community he addresses. Through readings attentive to narrative strategy and alert to the emerging middle-class culture that was his audience, the boo
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One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992
