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The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20050301
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The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Richard H. Millington, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$65.00). xviii + 285 pages. ISBN 0-521-00204-4. Hawthorne remains one of the most popular of America's classical authors. He was, as Prof. Millington writes in his Introduction, 'a writer made acute by the conflicts of meaning and value emerging all round him'. The twelve essays included here discuss Hawthorne's time in Concord with transcendentalists and utopian idealists, his work as a cultural theorist, his role in defining American masculinity, ...

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