Hawthorne's Works

Jan H. Hauptmann: The Relationship between Crime and Punishment in 19th Century American Writing, GRIN Verlag, November 2008, Dieses Buch wird extra für Sie gedruckt, da es vergriffen ist! Die Lieferzeit beträgt ca. 10-14 Tage. ISBN: 3640215176
Essay from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies - Literature, printed single-sided, grade: 1,7, Queen's University Belfast (Queen's University Belfast), 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This essay focuses on three American literary works of the 19th century: Nathaniel HAWTHORNE's famous novel The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, Herman MELVILLE's short story Benito Cereno in 1855, and Mark TWAIN's Pudd'nhead Wilson between 1893 and 1894. While the younger works Benito Cereno and Pudd'nhead Wilson are obviously concerned with the interrelation of blacks and whites, as well as with slavery and its effects on the American society, The Scarlet Letter primarily deals with the Puritan way of life and the law system in New England. Although a direct comparison of the three works seems to be problematical due to their different subject matters, the essay will figure out how crime and punishment is depicted in their broader frame.HAWTHORNE's Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th century in Salem, Massachusetts - the stronghold of New England's Puritanism. The main character of the novel, Hester Prynne, is mother of an illegitimate child (Pearl) and thus a sinner that, according to the strict Puritan laws, has to be ostracised and punished. Her actual punishment is determined by the town's magistracy and consists in the duty to carry a scarlet letter A on her clothes. The adulteress is also presented to an assembly of townspeople on the scaffold of the pillory. Midst of the crowd that is mocking the sinner is Hester's missed husband - Roger Prynne - as well as the person whom she committed adultery with - the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. Ironically enough, Dimmesdale is regarded as an extraordinary exemplary Puritan priest by both, the townspeople and the town's magistracy . His guilt remains undiscovered until the end of the novel. Roger Prynne is a stranger at the beginning, who unexpectedly appears at the market-place out of the wilderness . When Hester spots him on the scaffold, he signalises her not to reveal his identity as her husband and starts an indirect inquiry about her, trying to figure out why she is set up to public shame. A townsman congratulates the newcomer to be back in civilisation after being a wanderer sorely against [his] own will and explains what had happened in town and why Hester Prynne is punished on the scaffold.

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HAWTHORNE Nathaniel. THE MARBLE FAUN. Or the Romance of Monte Beni. Illustrated with Photogravures in two volumes. Large-Paper Edition. Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1889.

Testo inglese. Opera in due volumi. Cm.22x14,6. Pg.VIII, 530 complessive. Legature in piena pergamena editoriale con titoli e fregi in oro alla coperta. Ritratto dell'Autore inciso da Wilcox all'antiporta del primo volume. Con 50 fotolitografie in nero fuori testo, ciascuna con velina protettiva originale. Esemplari in barbe. Vistose bruniture. Tiratura limitata di 150 copie numerate, esemplare n°21. Importante resoconto di viaggio in Italia, pubblicato la prima volta nel 1860. Riportiamo integralmente il "Publishers' Advertisement", che illustra la particolare cura della presente, rarissima, edizione in tiratura limitata: "Ever since the first publication of The Marble Faun, travellers and lovers of Rome have used the book as a souvenir, and have found in its pages a most agreeable record of impressions created by the Eternal City and by the works of art preserved there. So satisfactory is the book in this regard that it early became the custom of visitors to Italy to collect photographs of the statues, paintings, and buildings referred to in the romance, and to interleave the book with them; and this has become so common that dealers in Rome and Florence make it their practice to keep such photographs arranged and ready for the traveller. Nevertheless, photographs are unsatisfactory pictures for such a purpose, and the volumes in which they are interleaved are apt to be displeasing to a fastidious collector. The publishers of Hawthorne's works have therefore taken the hint from this well-established custom, and have prepared the following edition, by printing the work in two volumes and adding to the text photogravures of fifty subjects. Great care has been taken by the publishers in the choice of photographs, and their selection is not a mere repetition of the dealer's choice. Every traveller knows that there is a wide difference between the best and the poorest of these photographs, and no pains have been spared to obtain the best made directly from the objects themselves. The publishers trust that they have thus given Hawthorne's classic a presentation more acceptable, not only to travellers but to all lovers of art and letters, than would have been possible had they resorted to the ordinary method of employing artists to illustrate the story. Some of the buildings illustrated have disappeared since Hawthorne saw them and wrote of them; others are likely to be altered or removed in the rapid change which is passing over Rome, and the work thus becomes a valuable record of the past as well as a pleasure to the eye".

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, and The Snow Image. Illustrated Library Edition of Hawthorne's Works. Two Volumes in One. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. ; fester Einband / hard cover
Single unnumbered volume from a Victorian era set of Hawthorne's works, illustrated throughout with engravings. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and in blind, top edge tinted brown, 273 pages. Covers rubbed at the extremities, chips to spine ends, spine cloth slightly faded, front cover soiled, front hinge internally cracked and repaired, generally sound text block, name on preliminary blank, pages otherwise clean and unmarked..

H Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, Fair.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun; or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Illustrated Library Edition of Hawthorne's Works. Two Volumes in One. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1872. ; fester Einband / hard cover
Single unnumbered volume from a Victorian era set of Hawthorne's works, illustrated throughout with engravings. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and in blind, top edge tinted brown, 288 pages. Covers rubbed at the extremities, chips to spine ends, spine cloth slightly faded, front hinge internally cracked, generally sound text block with a couple of pages protruding just a bit from the outer edge, name on preliminary blank, pages otherwise clean and unmarked..

H Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, Fair.

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