Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class FamilyUniversity of California Press, 15. veebr 1993 - 331 pages The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne—for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness—was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest. |
Contents
Indices of a Problem | 3 |
Zenobias Ghost | 18 |
NUMINOUS MATES | 31 |
The Queen of All She Surveys | 37 |
Portrait of the Artist as a SelfMade Man | 59 |
Subservient Angel | 74 |
Democratic Mythmaking in The House of the Seven Gables | 88 |
MARITAL POLITICS | 107 |
Domesticity as Redemption | 199 |
ROMAN FEVER | 213 |
City of the Soul | 215 |
Repudiations and Inward War | 225 |
The Lions of Lust | 240 |
Spiritual Laws | 248 |
The Poet as Patriarch | 256 |
Epilogue | 273 |
Inward and Eternal Union | 113 |
Transplanting the Garden of Eden | 126 |
Androgynous Paradise Lost | 138 |
SoulSystem in Salem | 161 |
Double Marriage Double Adultery | 184 |
Acknowledgments | 285 |
Notes | 289 |
Works Cited | 311 |
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