The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes |  | Author: Frederick Crews
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 293
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0520068343
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780520068346
ASIN: 0520068343
Publication Date: October 12, 1989
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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.
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