19th century american culture
19th century american fiction
A01=Frederick Crews
american literary criticism
american literature
american novelist
Author_Frederick Crews
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compulsion
dark romantic
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escapism
freud
inherent evil
literary studies
literary value
moral messages
moral metaphors
morality
nathaniel hawthorne
new england
popular psychology
psychoanalysis
psychological awareness
psychological complexity
religion
romantic movement
self debate
sin of art
sin of humanity
the sins of the fathers
united states of america
witchcraft
Product details
- ISBN 9780520068179
- Weight: 408g
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 1989
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Surveying Hawthorne's entire career, from his earliest surviving stories through the romances left unfinished at his death, Frederick Crews defines the terms of Hawthorne's self-debate as revealed in his fiction. Hawthorne emerges from this study as a writer of acute psychological awareness. In an Afterword written for this edition, Crews interrogates his own argument with characteristic unsparingness. He candidly reassesses the theoretical commitments behind his book, reflects on the path taken by Hawthorne criticism since 1966, and answers the question that many readers have asked of this ex-Freudian: "How much, today, remains valid in The Sins of the Fathers?" This essay is itself a significant contribution to the current debate over the role of 'theory' in literary studies.
Frederick Crews is Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Skeptical Engagements (1986) and Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method (1975).
