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Frames more valuable than the pictures themselves: fiction and journalism in Hawthorne's The Story Teller.(Nathaniel Hawthorne)

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From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Date: 20021201
Author:West, Peter

When Captain Joseph White of Salem was murdered on the night of 6 April 1830, the crime set off a narrative of sensationalism and intrigue in New England newspapers that lasted for months. (1) Among the countless Salemites and New Englanders following the story of the murder and the ensuing investigation and trial in local newspapers was Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose appetite for such stories lasted his entire life, and whose letters from the early 1830s reveal an intense curiosity with the case. Scholars of Hawthorne's life and career have consistently found connections between the ...

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