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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393924769

ISBN-139780393924763

eBay Product ID (ePID)128638587

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleHouse of the Seven Gables

Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicOccult & Supernatural, Horror, American / General, Historical

GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction

AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

Book SeriesNorton Critical Editions Ser.

FormatPerfect

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2005-051294

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number0

Dewey Decimal813/.3

Table Of ContentIntroductionA Note on the Text and AnnotationsAcknowledgmentsThe Text of The House of the Seven GablesContexts: HISTORYThomas Maule - From Truth Held Forth and MaintainedRobert Calef - From More Wonders of the Invisible WorldJoseph B. Felt - From Annals of SalemCharles W. Upham - From Lectures on WitchcraftNathaniel Hawthorne - From The American NotebooksHAWTHORNE AND THE LITERARY SKETCHNathaniel Hawthorne - Alice Doane's AppealNathaniel Hawthorne - The Old Apple-DealerHOUSESWilliam Andrus Alcott - From The House I Live InEdgar Allan Poe - The Fall of the House of UsherAndrew Jackson Downing - [American Country Houses]Catharine E. Beecher - [American Housekeepers]Margaret Fuller - From The Great LawsuitJ.H. Agnew - From Woman's Offices and InfluenceDAGUERROTYPY AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIESNathaniel Parker Willis - From The Pencil of Nature: A New DiscoveryAnonymous - From DaguerreotypesRalph Waldo Emerson - [Sea and Shore]T. S. Arthur - The DaguerreotypistFrederick Douglass - [Our Photographic Process]Charles Poyen - [Animal Magnetism]Nathaniel Hawthorne - [Love is the True Magnetism]Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville - From On the PenitentiarySystem in the United StatesNathaniel Hawthorne - [Railroads]Criticism: CONTEMPORARY RESPONSESNathaniel Hawthorne - From Letter to Hortatio Bridge, March 15, 1851Herman Melville - Letter to Hawthorne, [April 16], 1851Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Letter to Mrs. K.S. Minot, May 4, 1851Anonymous - [Sombre Coloring]Harriet Beecher Stowe - [A Succession of Rembrandt Pictures]SELECTIONS FROM CLASSIC STUDIESAnthony Trollope - [A Ghastly Spirit of Drollery]Henry James - [The House of the Seven Gables]William Dean Howells - [Dim, Forlorn Wraiths]D. H. Lawrence - [Vacuum Cleaner]F. O. Mathiessen - [Energy of Disease]Hyatt H. Waggoner - [Curves, Circles, and Cycles]A. N. Kaul - [The Rising Democracy]Frederick C. Crews - [Imperfect Repression]Nina Baym - [Holgrave]Eric J. Sundquist - [Mirror with a Memory]RECENT CRITICISM, 1981-PRESENTMichael T. Gilmore - The Artist and the Marketplace in The House of the Seven GablesWalter Benn Michaels - Romance and Real EstateGillian Brown - From Women's Work and Bodies in The House of the Seven GablesRichard H. Millington - [The Triple Beginning of The House of the Seven Gables]Alan Trachtenberg - Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven GablesDavid Anthony - Class, Culture, and the Trouble with White Skin in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven GablesAmy Schrager Lang - From Home, in the Better Sense: The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of InterestsChristopher Castiglia - The Marvelous Queer Interiors of The House of The Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne: A ChronologySelected Bibliography

Edition DescriptionRevised edition,Critical

SynopsisIt is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations and an insightful introduction to the novel and antebellum culture by Robert S. Levine. "Contexts" brings together a generous selection of primary materials intended to provide readers with background on the novel's central themes. Historical documents include accounts of Salem's history by Thomas Maule, Robert Calef, Joseph B. Felt, and Charles W. Upham, which Hawthorne drew on for The House of the Seven Gables. The importance of the house in antebellum America-as a manifestation of the body, a site of genealogical history, and a symbol of the republic's middle class-is explored through the diverse writings of William Andrus Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, and J. H. Agnew, among others. The impact of technological developments on the novel, especially of daguerreotypy, is considered through the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gustave de Beaumont, and Alexis de Tocqueville, among others. Also included are two of Hawthorne's literary sketches-"Alice Doane's Appeal" and "The Old Apple Dealer"-that demonstrate the continuity of Hawthorne's style, from his earlier periodical writing to his later career as a novelist. "Criticism" provides a comprehensive overview of the critical commentary on the novel from its publication to the present. Among the twenty-seven critics represented are Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Nina Baym, Eric Sundquist, Richard H. Millington, Alan Trachtenberg, Amy Schrager Lang, and Christopher Castiglia. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included., It is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations and an insightful introduction to the novel and antebellum culture by Robert S. Levine. "Contexts" brings together a generous selection of primary materials intended to provide readers with background on the novel's central themes. Historical documents include accounts of Salem's history by Thomas Maule, Robert Calef, Joseph B. Felt, and Charles W. Upham, which Hawthorne drew on for The House of the Seven Gables . The importance of the house in antebellum America--as a manifestation of the body, a site of genealogical history, and a symbol of the republic's middle class--is explored through the diverse writings of William Andrus Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, and J. H. Agnew, among others. The impact of technological developments on the novel, especially of daguerreotypy, is considered through the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gustave de Beaumont, and Alexis de Tocqueville, among others. Also included are two of Hawthorne's literary sketches--"Alice Doane's Appeal" and "The Old Apple Dealer"--that demonstrate the continuity of Hawthorne's style, from his earlier periodical writing to his later career as a novelist. "Criticism" provides a comprehensive overview of the critical commentary on the novel from its publication to the present. Among the twenty-seven critics represented are Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Nina Baym, Eric Sundquist, Richard H. Millington, Alan Trachtenberg, Amy Schrager Lang, and Christopher Castiglia. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included., This all-new edition of Hawthorne's celebrated 1851 novel is based on The Ohio State University Press's Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne., "Hawthorne's tale about the brooding hold of the past over the present is a complex one, twisting and turning its way back through many generations of a venerable New England family, one of whose members was accused of witchcraft in 17th century Salem. More than 200 years later, we meet the family in its decaying, gabled mansion, still haunted by the presence of dead ancestors: Hepzibah, an elderly gentlewoman fallen on bad times; her ineffectual brother, Clifford; and young Phoebe, a country maiden who cheerfully takes it upon herself to care for her two doddering relations. There's also Holgrave, a free-spirited daguerreotypist, who makes a surprising transformation into conventional respectability at the story's end." --School Library Journal "A large and generous production, pervaded with that vague hum, that indefinable echo, of the whole multitudinous life of man, which is the real sign of a great work of fiction." --Henry James Introduction by Basil Davenport. Also includes the author's original preface., "Contexts" brings together a generous selection of primary materials intended to provide readers with background on the novel's central themes. Historical documents include accounts of Salem's history by Thomas Maule, Robert Calef, Joseph B. Felt, and Charles W. Upham, which Hawthorne drew on for The House of the Seven Gables . The importance of the house in antebellum America--as a manifestation of the body, a site of genealogical history, and a symbol of the republic's middle class--is explored through the diverse writings of William Andrus Alcott, Edgar Allan Poe, and J. H. Agnew, among others. The impact of technological developments on the novel, especially of daguerreotypy, is considered through the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gustave de Beaumont, and Alexis de Tocqueville, among others. Also included are two of Hawthorne's literary sketches--"Alice Doane's Appeal" and "The Old Apple Dealer"--that demonstrate the continuity of Hawthorne's style, from his earlier periodical writing to his later career as a novelist. "Criticism" provides a comprehensive overview of the critical commentary on the novel from its publication to the present. Among the twenty-seven critics represented are Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry James, Nina Baym, Eric Sundquist, Richard H. Millington, Alan Trachtenberg, Amy Schrager Lang, and Christopher Castiglia. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

LC Classification NumberPS1850