"The first extended study ever made of an American writer. It still remains one of the best."--Edmund WilsonOriginally published in 1879, Henry James's Hawthorne has been out of print for many years. Cornell University Press is proud to make this American classic available again in a new paperback edition.In this critique of one literary genius by another, James not only considers Hawthorne as a man and a writer, for whom he has a tender, if critical, regard, but he uses his subject as a vantage point from which to present his views on American culture. With his customary urbanity, James assesses the place of the writer in nineteenth-century America, and touches upon the antithetical values of the Old World and the New.Hawthorne's preoccupation with evil and guilt, his portentous imagination, and his otherworldliness are brought out in the critique of his works, together with James's keen appreciation of Hawthorne's remarkable gifts.

Author: Henry James
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/15/1997
Series: Cornell Paperbacks
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.41h x 5.03w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780801484797
Revised Edition
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author

Dan McCall is Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Silence of Bartleby, from Cornell.