Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Blithedale Romance


A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION



Contents


Introduction

The Text of The Blithedale Romance

Backgrounds and Sources
  HAWTHORNE'S LIFE AT BROOK FARM
    Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Letters and Journals
    Ralph Waldo Emerson · From His Journals
  
  HAWTHORNE'S ATTITUDE TOWARD MESMERISM
    Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Letters
  
  HAWTHORNE'S USE OF The American Notebooks in
    The Blithedale Romance
    Nathaniel Hawthorne · From His Journals
        [Old Moodie]
        [Priscilla]
        [Coverdale's Hermitage]
        [A Farewell to the Swine]
        [Views from Coverdale's Window]
        [A Boston Saloon]
        [The Masqueraders]
        [Zenobia's Drowning]
  
  EMERSON'S VIEWS ON REFORM, ROMANTIC IDEALISM, AND
    BROOK FARM
    Ralph Waldo Emerson · Historic Notes of Life and Letters in
      New England
  
Criticism
  CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
    From the Christian Examiner (September 1852)
    From the Westminster Review (October 1852)
    From Brownson's Quarterly Review (October 1852)
    From the Athenaeum (July 1852)
    From the Westminster Review (October 1852)
    From the Spectator (July 1852)
    From the North British Review (November 1853)
    From Graham's Magazine (September 1852)
    From the Atlantic Monthly (May 1860)
    From the New Monthly Magazine (June 1853)
    From the Westminster Review (October 1852)
    From the American Whig Review (November 1852)
    From the American Whig Review (November 1852)
    From Blackwood's Magazine (May 1855)
    From the New Monthly Magazine (June 1853)
    
  MODERN ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
    Irving Howe · Hawthorne: Pastoral and Politics
    Roy R. Male · The Pastoral Wasteland: The Blithedale Romance
    A. N. Kaul · [Community and Society]
    Leo B. Levy · The Blithedale Romance: Hawthorne's "Voyage
      Through Chaos"
    Hans-Joachim Lang · The Blithedale Romance: A History of
      Ideas Approach
    Philip Rahv · The Dark Lady of Salem
    Barbara F. Lefcowitz and Allan B. Lefcowitz · Some Rents in
      the Veil: New Light on Priscilla and Zenobia
    Nina Baym · The Blithedale Romance: A Radical Reading
    Hyatt H. Waggoner · [Fire and Veils: The Texture of The
      Blithedale Romance
]
    Frederick C. Crews · Turning the Affair into a Ballad
    Kelley Griffith, Jr. · Form in The Blithedale Romance
    Louis Auchincloss · The Blithedale Romance: A Study of Form
      and Point of View
    James H. Justus · Hawthorne's Coverdale: Character and Art in
      The Blithedale Romance
    Kent Bales · The Allegory and the Radical Romantic Ethic of The
      Blithedale Romance

  
Bibliography


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