The Hawthorne and Melville Friendship: An Annotated Bibliography, Biographical and Critical Essays, and Correspondence Between the Two

by James C. Wilson

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville--so different in temperament and background--were intellectual equals who formed a singular and intense friendship beginning in 1850. This volume, divided into three parts, examines the relationship.The bibliographic part addresses biographical accounts of the friendship, assessments of mutual influences, literary reflections of their relationship, parallel readings of their works, and generic and theoretical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899506445
• ISBN13: 9780899506449
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.