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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.

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• Full title: Dearest Beloved
• Subtitle: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family
• Author: T.Walter Herbert
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 331
• EAN: 9780520201552
• ISBN: 0520201558
• ID: 04616064
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 150 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. March 1995

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