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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2011
Print publication year:
2011
First published in:
1879
Online ISBN:
9781139083881
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139083881
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
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Book description

This critical essay and biography by Henry James (1843–1916) of his fellow American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64), today best remembered for The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, was published in the first 'English Men of Letters' series in 1879, and is notable for being the only volume in that series devoted to an American. It is now recognised as being one of the first critical studies of an American writer, and it remains an important work for students and admirers both of James and of Hawthorne. In his critical assessment, James, whose own writing was strongly influenced by Hawthorne, seeks to identify him not only as a great novelist, but particularly as an American novelist, rooted in the landscape, and speaking in the language, of the New World.

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