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Hawthorne in His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates (Hardcover)
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Hawthorne in His Own Time - A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates (Hardcover)
Series: Writers in Their Own Time
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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 between Hawthorne'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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