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Hawthorne and Melville - Writing a Relationship (Paperback)
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Hawthorne and Melville - Writing a Relationship (Paperback)
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This is the first major effort in twenty years to reassess the
relationship between Melville and Hawthorne.Herman Melville and
Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an
intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive
tools such as queer theory, globalist studies, political and social
ideology, marketplace analysis, psychoanalytical and philosophical
applications to literature, masculinist theory, and critical
studies of race, the twelve essays in this book focus on a number
of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities
existing between the two writers.Jana L. Argersinger and Leland S.
Person introduce the volume with a lively summary of the known
biographical facts of the two writers' relationship and an overview
of the relevant scholarship to date. Some of the essays that follow
broach the possibility of sexual dimensions to the relationship, a
question that ""looms like a grand hooded phantom"" over the field
of Melville-Hawthorne studies. Questions of influence - Hawthorne's
on Moby-Dick and Pierre and Melville's on The Blithedale Romance,
to mention only the most obvious instances - are also discussed.
The other topics covered include professional competitiveness;
Melville's search for a father figure; masculine ambivalence in the
marketplace; and political-literary aspects of nationalism,
transcendentalism, race, and other defining issues of Hawthorne and
Melville's times.Roughly half of the essays focus on biographical
issues; the others take literary perspectives. The essays are
informed by a variety of critical approaches, as well as by new
historical insights and new understandings of the possibilities
that existed for male friendships in nineteenth-century American
culture.
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