Hawthorne's Habitations

The first literary/biographical study of Hawthorne''s full career in almost forty years, Hawthorne''s Habitations presents a self-divided man and writer strongly attracted to reality for its own sake and remarkably adept at rendering it yet fearful of the nothingness he intuited at its heart.Making extensive use of Hawthorne''s notebooks and letters as well as nearly all of his important fiction, ...