(view table of contents)

Product Description: The critical literary world has spent a wealth of thought and words on the question of Hawthorne himself: Where does he stand in his works? In history? In literary tradition? In this major new study, G. R. Thompson recasts the "Hawthorne question" to show how authorial presence in the writer's works is as much a matter of art as the writing itself...read more

The finest comic, Gothic, and satiric works of the nineteenth-century writer are preceded by comments on his use of irony (view table of contents)