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Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- 1804-1864 -- House of the seven gables, House of the seven gables (Hawthorne, Nathaniel), and Occult fiction

'This Norton Critical Edition of The House of the Seven Gables provides readers with a definitive version of Hawthorne's 1851 novel, and a detailed resource for understanding the novel's resonance with Antebellum America. The story is about the generations of the Pyncheon family that have lived in the House of the Seven Gables, their ancestry, and their connection to the home. 'Contexts' provides readers with historical background about early to mid-19th century American society and domesticity, allowing them to consider cultural beliefs that may have been important to Hawthorne's readers and to the period in which he was writing. 'Criticism' includes contemporary, classic, and modern criticism of the novel, allowing readers to better understand how the novel was received in its time, as well as how its themes and characters are understood today. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included'

Empfindsamkeit, Roman, Sentimentalism in literature, American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism, Communities in literature, Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- 1811-1896 -- Uncle Tom's cabin, Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- 1804-1864 -- House of the seven gables, Melville, Herman -- 1819-1891 -- Pierre, House of the seven gables (Hawthorne, Nathaniel), Pierre (Melville, Herman), Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher), American fiction, 1800-1899, and Criticism, interpretation, etc

'The Logic of Sentiment is a study of sentimentality, a literary mode that aims to answer the question, 'What hold us together?' Against the grain of cultural studies, which understands sentimentality as consolidating communities on the basis of material or historical foundations, Kenneth Dauber takes a philosophical approach. He argues that sentimentality is love conceptualized in denial of a skepticism--understood as the problem of people's otherness to each other--that material associations cannot dispel. Through close readings in the style of 'ordinary language' criticism, Dauber analyzes mid-19th-century American novels, where sentimentality achieved its most complete articulation, with a focus on three novels published nearly simultaneously-Uncle Tom's Cabin, The House of the Seven Gables, and Pierre. Referencing a wide range of philosophical and literary texts, Dauber examines the response of sentimental writers to their growing awareness of love's lack of foundation, the waywardness with which individuals dispose themselves as they succeed and fail in achieving a viable 'we.' The Logic of Sentiment traces the movement from sentimentality to realism, the relation between epistemology and ethics, and the kind of investments that writers attempt to solicit from their readers'

Empfindsamkeit, Roman, Sentimentalism in literature, American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism, Communities in literature, Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- 1811-1896 -- Uncle Tom's cabin, Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- 1804-1864 -- House of the seven gables, Melville, Herman -- 1819-1891 -- Pierre, House of the seven gables (Hawthorne, Nathaniel), Pierre (Melville, Herman), Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher), American fiction, 1800-1899, and Criticism, interpretation, etc

'The Logic of Sentiment is a study of sentimentality, a literary mode that aims to answer the question, 'What hold us together?' Against the grain of cultural studies, which understands sentimentality as consolidating communities on the basis of material or historical foundations, Kenneth Dauber takes a philosophical approach. He argues that sentimentality is love conceptualized in denial of a skepticism--understood as the problem of people's otherness to each other--that material associations cannot dispel. Through close readings in the style of 'ordinary language' criticism, Dauber analyzes mid-19th-century American novels, where sentimentality achieved its most complete articulation, with a focus on three novels published nearly simultaneously-Uncle Tom's Cabin, The House of the Seven Gables, and Pierre. Referencing a wide range of philosophical and literary texts, Dauber examines the response of sentimental writers to their growing awareness of love's lack of foundation, the waywardness with which individuals dispose themselves as they succeed and fail in achieving a viable 'we.' The Logic of Sentiment traces the movement from sentimentality to realism, the relation between epistemology and ethics, and the kind of investments that writers attempt to solicit from their readers'