{"product_id":"hawthorne-and-melville-writing-a-relationship-9780820330969","title":"Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship","description":"\u003cp\u003eHerman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne met in 1850 and enjoyed for sixteen months an intense but brief friendship. Taking advantage of new interpretive tools such as queer theory, globalist studies, political and social ideology, marketplace analysis, psychoanalytical and philosophical applications to literature, masculinist theory, and critical studies of race, the twelve essays in this book focus on a number of provocative personal, professional, and literary ambiguities existing between the two writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJana L. Argersinger and Leland S. Person introduce the volume with a lively summary of the known biographical facts of the two writers' relationship and an overview of the relevant scholarship to date. Some of the essays that follow broach the possibility of sexual dimensions to the relationship, a question that \"looms like a grand hooded phantom\" over the field of Melville-Hawthorne studies. Questions of influence--Hawthorne's on \u003ci\u003eMoby-Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePierre\u003c\/i\u003e and Melville's on \u003ci\u003eThe Blithedale Romance\u003c\/i\u003e, to mention only the most obvious instances--are also discussed. Other topics covered include professional competitiveness; Melville's search for a father figure; masculine ambivalence in the marketplace; and political-literary aspects of nationalism, transcendentalism, race, and other defining issues of Hawthorne and Melville's times. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRoughly half of the essays focus on biographical issues; the others take literary perspectives. The essays are informed by a variety of critical approaches, as well as by new historical insights and new understandings of the possibilities that existed for male friendships in nineteenth-century American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jana L. Argersinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 6.15w x 0.91d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820330969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/11\/2008 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJana L. Argersinger (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e JANA L. ARGERSINGER is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoe Studies\/Dark Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e and serves as president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeland S. Person (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LELAND S. PERSON is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40202813407347,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5728b875-5c03-40eb-ad5e-b521a54e2270.jpg?v=1656252906","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/hawthorne-and-melville-writing-a-relationship-9780820330969","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}