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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2011
      27 October 2011
      ISBN:
      9781139083881
      9781108034623
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139083881
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.26kg, 198 Pages
      • 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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    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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    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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