七个尖角的阁楼(诺顿美国文学评论系列) House of Seven Gables
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作者： Robert S. Levine著
出 版 社： 华文出版社
出版时间： 2006-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 502印刷时间： 2005/11/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780393924763包装： 平装内容简介
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. 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 Historical documents include accounts of Salem’s history by Thomas Maule, Robert Calef, Joseph B. Felt, and Charles W. Upham, which Hawthorne drew on for The House of the Seven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.
作者简介
Robert S. Levine is Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brocken Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville and Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. His edited volumes include The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader.
目录
Introduction
A Note on the Text and Annotations
Acknowledgments
The Text of The House of the Seven Gables
Contexts
HISTORY
Thomas MauleFrom Truth Held Forth and Maintained
Robert CalefFrom More Wonders of the Invisible World
Joseph B. FeltFrom Annals of Salem
Charles W. UphamFrom Lectures on Witchcraft
Nathaniel HawthorneFrom The American Notebooks
HAWTHORNE AND THE LITERARY SKETCH
Nathaniel HawthorneAlice Doane’s Appeal
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Old Apple-Dealer
HOUSES
William Andrus AlcottFrom The House I Live In
Edgar Allan PoeThe Fall of the House of Usher
Andrew Jackson Downing[American Country Houses]
Catharine E. Beecher[American Housekeepers]
Margaret FullerFrom The Great Lawsuit
J.H. AgnewFrom Woman’s Offices and Influence
DAGUERROTYPY AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
Nathaniel Parker WillisFrom The Pencil of Nature: A New Discovery
AnonymousFrom Daguerreotypes
Ralph Waldo Emerson[Sea and Shore]
T. S. ArthurThe Daguerreotypist
Frederick Douglass[Our Photographic Process]
Charles Poyen[Animal Magnetism]
Nathaniel Hawthorne[Love is the True Magnetism]
Gustave de Beaumont and Alexis de TocquevilleFrom On the Penitentiary
System in the United States
Nathaniel Hawthorne[Railroads]
Criticism
CONTEMPORARY RESPONSES
Nathaniel HawthorneFrom Letter to Hortatio Bridge, March 15, 1851
Herman MelvilleLetter to Hawthorne, [April 16], 1851
Catharine Maria SedgwickLetter to Mrs. K.S. Minot, May 4, 1851
Anonymous[Sombre Coloring]
Harriet Beecher Stowe[A Succession of Rembrandt Pictures]
SELECTIONS FROM CLASSIC STUDIES
Anthony 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–PRESENT
Michael T. GilmoreThe Artist and the Marketplace in The House of the Seven Gables
Walter Benn MichaelsRomance and Real Estate
Gillian BrownFrom Women’s Work and Bodies in The House of the Seven Gables
Richard H. Millington[The Triple Beginning of The House of the Seven Gables]
Alan TrachtenbergSeeing and Believing: Hawthorne’s Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables
David AnthonyClass, Culture, and the Trouble with White Skin in Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables
Amy Schrager LangFrom Home, in the Better Sense: The Model Woman, the Middle Class, and the Harmony of Interests
Christopher CastigliaThe Marvelous Queer Interiors of The House of The Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography