Introduction
The American Experience
The European Experience
Afterword
Hawthorne's Comments on Art: A Sampling
Select Bibliography
Index
This study takes an unusual approach to Nathaniel Hawthorne's knowledge and uses of the visual arts by tracing his encounters with art in New England, then focusing on his determined effort to acquire a taste for painting in Europe and America.
RITA K. GOLLIN is Professor of English at the State University
of New York at Geneseo. Her previous books include Portraits of
Nathaniel Hawthorne: An Iconography and Nathaniel Hawthorne and the
Truth of Dreams.
JOHN L. IDOL, Jr., is Professor of English at Clemson University.
His previous works include A Thomas Wolfe Companion (Greenwood
Press, 1987).
STERLING K. EISIMINGER is Professor of English at Clemson
University. He is the author of The Consequences of Error and Other
Essays (1991) and Wordspinner (1991).
?Instances where Nathaniel Hawthorne made significant use of his
knowledge of the visual arts in such fictions as The House of the
Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, and many short stories have been
commented upon by a great many scholars and critics, among them the
authors of this book. Here they offer a compendium and distillation
of the life-time experiences of Hawthorne with painting, sculpture,
and art criticism or theory. Chronologically organized and usefully
illustrated, there may not be much that is new in this book, but
the volume's inclusiveness, solid bibliography, and references to
particular works should serve close students of Hawthorne and
scholars in American 19th-century literature. Those concerned with
the place of the arts in American intellectual life will also find
it worth reading. Levels: graduate and upper-division
undergraduate.?-Choice
"Instances where Nathaniel Hawthorne made significant use of his
knowledge of the visual arts in such fictions as The House of the
Seven Gables, The Marble Faun, and many short stories have been
commented upon by a great many scholars and critics, among them the
authors of this book. Here they offer a compendium and distillation
of the life-time experiences of Hawthorne with painting, sculpture,
and art criticism or theory. Chronologically organized and usefully
illustrated, there may not be much that is new in this book, but
the volume's inclusiveness, solid bibliography, and references to
particular works should serve close students of Hawthorne and
scholars in American 19th-century literature. Those concerned with
the place of the arts in American intellectual life will also find
it worth reading. Levels: graduate and upper-division
undergraduate."-Choice
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