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Emerson in His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews and Memoirs by Family, Friends and Associates (Paperback)
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Emerson in His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews and Memoirs by Family, Friends and Associates (Paperback)
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At his death, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was universally
acknowledged in America and England as "the Great Romancer." Novels
such as "The Scarlet Letter "and "The House of the Seven Gables
"and stories published in such collections as "Twice-Told Tales"
continue to capture the minds and imaginations of readers and
critics to this day. Harder to capture, however, were the character
and personality of the man himself. So few of the essays that
appeared in the two years after his death offered new insights into
his life, art, and reputation that Hawthorne seemed fated to
premature obscurity or, at least, permanent misrepresentation. This
first collection of personal reminiscences by those who knew
Hawthorne intimately or knew about him through reliable secondary
sources rescues him from these confusions and provides the real
human history behind the successful writer.
Remembrances from Elizabeth Peabody, Sophia Hawthorne, Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Rebecca
Harding Davis, and twenty others printed in Hawthorne in His Own
Time follow him from his childhood in Salem, through his years of
initial literary obscurity, his days in the Boston and Salem Custom
Houses, his service as U.S. Consul to Liverpool and Manchester and
his life in the Anglo-American communities at Rome and Florence, to
his late years as the "Great Romancer."
In their enlightening introduction, editors Ronald Bosco and
Jillmarie Murphy assess the postmortem building of Hawthorne's
reputation as well as his relationship to the prominent
Transcendentalists, spiritualists, Swedenborgians, and other
personalities of his time. By clarifying the sentimental
associations betweenHawthorne's writings and his actual personality
and moving away from the critical review to the personal narrative,
these artful and perceptive reminiscences tell the private and
public story of a remarkable life.
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