In the Belly of the Beast

Hawthorne in England

Bibliographic Data

ID9323928
AuthorsRobert Milder (Robert Milder, Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, is the author of Reimagining Thoreau (1995) and Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine (2006). With Randall Fuller, he edited The Business of Reflection (2009), a selection of Hawthorne's notebooks. He recently completed a study of Hawthorne's career titled Hawthorne's Habitations., corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume84
Issue1
Pages60-103
Publication date2011-02-17
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe New England Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/tneq_a_00067
OpenAlexW2054451737
LanguageEN
Citations received12

Hawthorne's years in England, the least studied phase of his career, are especially significant for the challenge that English materialism posed to his New England austerity and his romancer's idealism. Beyond recording his complex response to English life and character, his “English Notebooks” and “Our Old Home” show how England permanently inflected his character and sense of experience

Art · Austerity · Character (mathematics · Epistemology · Idealism · Literature · Materialism · New england · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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