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Selected Bibliography: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance

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Anderson, Douglas. "The Blithedale Romance and Post-Heroic Life." Nineteenth-Century Literature 60.1 (2005): 32-.

Anhorn, Judy Schaaf. "'Gifted Simplicity of Vision': Pastoral Expectations in The Blithedale Romance ." ESQ 28.3 (1982): 135-53.

Auchincloss, Louis. " The Blithedale Romance : A Study of Form and Point of View ." Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal (1972): 53-8.

Bales, Kent. "The Allegory and the Radical Romantic Ethic of The Blithedale Romance ." American Literature 46 (1974): 41-53.

Bauer, Dale. Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.

Baym, Nina. " The Blithedale Romance : A Radical Reading." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 67 (1968): 545-69.

Bell, Michael Davitt. The Development of American Romance: The Sacrifice of Realism . Chicago: Chicago UP, 1980.

Ben-Zvi, Yael. "Clinging to One Spot: Hawthorne's Native-Born Settlers." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 52 1-2 [202-203] (2006): 17-44. Print.

Berlant, Lauren. "Fantasies of Utopia in The Blithedale Romance ." American Literary History 1.1 (Spring 1989): 30-62.

Bloom, Harold. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bloom's Classic Critical Views. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008. Print

Borgstrom, Michael. "Hating Miles Coverdale." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 56 4 [221] (2010): 363-90. Print.

Brodhead, Richard H. "Veiled Ladies: Toward a History of Antebellum Entertainment ." American Literary History 1.2 (Summer 1989): 273-94.

Brodhead, Richard. "Hawthorne Among the Realists: The Case of Howells ." American Realism: New Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. 25-41.

Bumas, E. Shaskan. "'the Forgotten Art of Gayety': Masquerade, Utopia, and the Complexion of Empire." Arizona Quarterly 59.4 (2003): 1-30.

Bumas, E. Shaskan. "Fictions of the Panopticon: Prison, Utopia, and the out- Penitent in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne." American Literature 73.1 (2001): 121-45.

Cain, William E. The Blithedale Romance. Boston, MA : Bedford, 1996.

Carabine, Keith. "'Bitter Honey': Miles Coverdale as Narrator in The Blithedale Romance." In Nathaniel Hawthorne: New Critical Essays . Ed. A. Robert Lee. Totowa, NJ: Vision, 1982. 110-130.

Cary, Louise D. "Margaret Fuller as Hawthorne's Zenobia: The Problem of Moral Accountability in Fictional Biography." ATQ 4.1 (March 1990): 31-48.

Castronovo, Russ. "'That Half-Living Corpse': Hawthorne and the Occult Public Sphere." REAL: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 18 (2002): 231-58.

Christianson, Frank. "'Trading Places in Fancy': Hawthorne's Critique of Sympathetic Identification in the Blithedale Romance." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 36.2 (2003): 244-.

Christianson, Frank. Philanthropy in British and American Fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot, and Howells. Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures (Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures). Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh UP, 2007. Print.

Christopherson, Bill. "Behind the White Veil: Self-Awareness in Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance ." Modern Language Studies 12.2 (Spring 1982): 81-92.

Ciccone, Nancy. "The Blithedale Romance, an American Bacchae." Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 20.1 (1999): 77-100.

Colacurcio, Michael J. "Nobody's Protest Novel: Art and Politics in the Blithedale Romance." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 34 1-2 (2008): 1-39. Print.

Crews, Frederick C. The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes . New York: Oxford UP, 1966.

Daigrepont, Lloyd M. "Self-Estrangement and the Idea of Society in the Writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne." Markham Review 13 (1983-4): 1-7.

D'Amore, Maura. "Hawthorne and the Suburban Romance." Studies in American Fiction 37 2 (2010): 155-80. Print.New

Dauber, Kenneth. Rediscovering Hawthorne . Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977.

Davis, Clark. Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement. Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins UP, 2005.

Draxlbauer, Michael. "Utopia 'Re-membered': Nathaniel Hawthorne's Brook Farm Romance." Utopian Thought in American Literature . Ed. Arno Heller, Walter Holbling, and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tubigen: Narr, 1988. 43-68.

Dill, Elizabeth. "Angel of the House, Ghost of the Commune: Zenobia as Sentimental Woman in the Blithedale Romance." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 37 1 (2011): 62-87. Print.New

Elbert, Monika M. "Hawthorne's Reconceptualization of Transcendentalist Charity." ATQ 11.3 (1997): 213-32.

Egan, Ken, Jr. "Hawthorne's Anti-Romance: Blithedale and Sentimental Culture ." Journal of American Culture 11.4 (Winter 1988): 45-52.

Fisher, Lydia. "The Savage in the House." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 64 1 (2008): 49-75. Print.

FitzPatrick, Martin. "'to a Practised Touch': Miles Coverdale and Hawthorne's Irony." American Transcendental Quarterly 14.1 (2000): 28-46.

Flynn, Kelly M. "Nathaniel Hawthorne Had a Farm: Artists, Laborers, and Landscapes in the Blithedale Romance." Reading the Earth: New Directions in the Study of Literature and Environment. Eds. Michael P. Branch, et al.: U of Idaho P, Moscow, ID Pagination: 145-54, 1998. xviii, 266.

Fogle, Richard Harter. Hawthorne's Fiction: The Light and the Dark . Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1952, 1964.

Gable, Harvey L., Jr. "Inappeasable Longings: Hawthorne, Romance, and the Disintegration of Coverdale's Self in The Blithedale Romance ." New England Quarterly 67.2 (June 1994): 257-78.

Gilmore, Michael T. "Words and Things in Antebellum American Literature: Notes toward an Interpretation." In Smith, John Hazel, ed., Brandeis Essays in Literature . Waltham: Dept. of English and American literature, 1983. 85-99.

Gilmore, Michael T. "Hawthorne and Politics (Again): Words and Deeds in the 1850s." Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays. Ed. Millicent Bell: Ohio State UP, Columbus, OH Pagination: 22-39, 2005. ix, 228.

Gollin, Rita K. "'Dream-Work' in The Blithedale Romance ." ESQ 71 (1973): 74-83.

Greenwald, Elissa. Realism and the Romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and American Fiction. Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1989.

Greiman, Jennifer. Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. New York, NY: Fordham UP, 2010. Print.

Greven, David. "In a Pig's Eye: Masculinity, Mastery, and the Returned Gaze of the Blithedale Romance." Studies in American Fiction 34 2 (2006): 131-59. Print.

Griffith, Kelley, Jr. "Form in The Blithedale Romance ." American Literature 40 (1968): 15-26.

Grossberg, Benjamin Scott. "'the Tender Passion Was Very Rife among Us': Coverdale's Queer Utopia and the Blithedale Romance." Studies in American Fiction 28.1 (2000): 3-.

Hewitson, James. "'to Despair at the Tedious Delay of the Final Conflagration': Hawthorne's Use of the Figure of William Miller." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 53 1 [206] (2007): 89-111. Print.

Hoffman, Daniel. Form and Fable in American Fiction . New York: Oxford UP, 1961. 203-18.

Hollinger, Douglas L. "The Courtship of Miles Coverdale." ANQ 8.3 (Summer 1995): 8-11.

Howe, Irving. Politics and the Novel . New York: Horizon Press, 1957.

Hull, Richard. "Critique of Characterization: It was in Not Knowing That He Loved Her." Style 26.1 (Spring 1992) 33-49.

Hume, Beverly. "Restructuring the Case against Hawthorne's Coverdale." Nineteenth-Century Literature 40.4 (March 1986): 387-399.

Jones, Buford. "The Manuscript of The Blithedale Romance ." Hawthorne Society Newsletter 11.2 (Fall 1985): 12-13.

Jones, E. Michael. "The Blithedale Romance and the Wreck of Human Nature." The Angel and the Machine: The Rational Philosophy of Nathaniel Hawthorne . Peru, IL: Sherwood Sugden, 1991. 175-87.

Jooma, Minaz. "Spectating the Spectator, Re(ad)dressing the (Ad)Dressor." American Transcendental Quarterly (ATQ ) 7.4 (December 1993): 321-33.

Justus, James H. "Hawthorne's Coverdale: Character and Art in The Blithedale Romance ." American Literature 47 (1975): 21-36.

Kay, Donald. "Five Acts of The Blithedale Romance ." ATQ 13 (1972): 25-8.

Kopley, Richard. "Poe at Blithedale." Edgar Allan Poe Review 10 3 (2009): 53-59. Print.Adamson, Joseph. "Guardian of the 'Inmost Me': Hawthorne and Shame." Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing. Eds. Joseph Adamson, Hillary Clark and Nathan L. Donald. Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture: State U of New York P, Albany, NY Pagination: 53-82, 1999. xii, 280.

Kupsch, Kenneth. "The Modern Tragedy of Blithedale." Studies in the Novel 36.1 (2004): 1-20.

Kurjiaka, Susan K. H. "Rage Turned Inward: Woman against Herself in Hawthorne's Fiction ." Mount Olive Review 7 (1993-4): 33-40

Lefcowitz, Barbara F., and Allan B. Lefcowitz. "Some Rents in the Veil: New Light on Priscilla and Zenobia." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 21 (1966): 263-75.

Levine, Robert S . Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville. Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1989.

Levine, Robert S. "Sympathy and Reform in the Blithedale Romance." The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ed. Richard H. Millington. Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cctl): Cambridge UP, Cambridge, England Pagination: 207-29, 2004. xviii, 285.

Levy, Leo B. " The Blithedale Romance : Hawthorne's 'Voyage Through Chaos.'" Studies in Romanticism 8 (1968): 1-15.

Lewis, Ffrangcon. "Women, Death, and Theatricality in The Blithedale Romance." Journal of American Studies 26.1 (April 1992): 75-94.

Mackenzie, Manfred. "Colonization and Decolonization in The Blithedale Romance ." University of Toronto Quarterly 62.4 (Summer 1993): 504-21.

Male, Roy R. Hawthorne's Tragic Vision . Austin U of Texas P, 1957.

Margolis, Stacey. The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Durham, NC : Duke UP, 2005.

Martin, Robert K. "Age of Innocence: Edith Wharton, Henry James, and Nathaniel Hawthorne." Henry James Review 21.1 (2000): 56-62.

McElroy, John Harmon, and Edward L. McDonald. "The Coverdale Romance." Studies in the Novel 14.1 (Spring 1982): 1-16.

Milder, Robert. "Beautiful Illusions: Hawthorne and the Site of Moral Law." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 33 2 (2007): 1-23. Print.

Miles, Robert. " The Blithedale Romance , Rousseau, and the Feminine Art of Dress." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 31.2 (Summer 1989): 214-36.

Miller, John N. "Eros and Ideology: At the Heart of Hawthorne's Blithedale." Nineteenth-Century Literature 55.1 (2000): 1-.

Millington, Richard H. "American Anxiousness: Selfhood and Culture in Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance ." New England Quarterly 63.4 (December 1990): 558-83.

Mills, Angela. "'the Sweet Word,' Sister: The Transformative Threat of Sisterhood and the Blithedale Romance." American Transcendental Quarterly 17.2 (2003): 97-121.

Mitchell, Thomas R. "In the Whale's Wake: Melville and the Blithedale Romance." ESQ 46.1-2 [178- 179] (2000): 51-73. Rpt. in Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship. Eds. Argersinger, Jana L. and Leland S. Person. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 2008. xiv, 378 pp. Print.

Moldenhauer, Joseph J. "Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the 'Seven-Mile Panorama'." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 44.4 [173] (1998): 227-73.

Orsagh, Jacqueline E. "Blithedale: Another Lesson for Dark Ladies." Centennial Review 31.3 (Summer 1987): 291-307.

Pearce, Roy Harvey. "Day-Dream and Fact: The Import of The Blithedale Romance ." Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction. Ed. Kenneth H. Baldwin and David K. Kirby. Durham: Duke UP, 1975.

Poirier, Richard A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature . New York: Oxford UP, 1966. 115-24.

Porte, Joel. The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James . Middleton, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1969.

Pusch, Jeffrey. "Princess Priscilla: Biblical Veil Imagery and Jewish Folktales in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne." Studies in American Culture 27.2 (2004): 1-7.

Rahv, Philip. "The Dark Lady of Salem." Partisan Review 8 (1941): 362-81.

Reike, Alison. "Two Women: The Transformations." in Kessler-Harris, Alice, and William McBrien, eds. Faith of a Woman Writer . Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988. 71-81.

Reynolds, Larry J. "'Strangely Ajar with the Human Race': Hawthorne, Slavery, and the Question of Moral Responsibility." Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays. Ed. Millicent Bell: Ohio State UP, Columbus, OH Pagination: 40-69, 2005. ix, 228.

Rowe, John Carlos. "Nathaniel Hawthorne and Transnationality." Hawthorne and the Real: Bicentennial Essays. Ed. Millicent Bell Columbus, OHOhio State UP, Pagination: 88-106, 2005. ix, 228.

Rust, Richard Dilworth. "Coverdale's Confession: A Key to Meaning in The Blithedale Romance ." In Literature and Ideas in America: Essays in Memory of Harry Hayden Clark . Ed. Robert Falk, G. Thomas Tanselle, Katherine Wicks. Athens: Ohio UP, 1975. 96-110.

Scharnhorst, Gary. "R. H. Stoddard Reviews The Blithedale Romance." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 14.1 (spring 1988): 15-16.

Schriber, Mary Suzanne. "Justice to Zenobia." New England Quarterly 55.1 (March 1982): 61-78.

Schweninger, Lee. "'In the middest of that paradise': Structure and Theme in The Blithedale Romance ." Markham Review 16 (Fall-Winter 1986): 11-16.

Sprague, Clair. "Dream and Disguise in The Blithedale Romance ." PMLA 84 (1969): 596-7.

St. Armond, Barton L. "The Love Song of Miles Coverdale: Intimations of Eliot's 'Prufrock' in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance ." ATQ 2.2 (June 1988): 97-109.

Stanton, Robert. "The Trial of Nature: An Analysis of The Blithedale Romance." PMLA 76 (1961): 528-38.

Stay, Byron L. "Hawthorne's Fallen Puritans: Eliot's Pulpit in The Blithedale Romance ." Studies in the Novel 18.3 (Fall 1986): 283-90.

Stock, Irvin. "Hawthorne's Portrait of the Artist: A Defense of The Blithedale Romance ." Novel 11 (1978):144-56.

Stout, Janis P. "The Fallen Woman and the Conflicted Author: Hawthorne and Hardy." ATQ 1.3 (Sept. 1987) 233-246.

Strychacz, Thomas F. "Coverdale and Women: Feverish Fantasies in The Blithedale Romance ." ATQ 62 (Dec. 1986): 29-45.

Swann, Charles. " The Blithedale Romance : Translation and Transformation: Mime and Mimesis." Journal of American Studies 18.2 (August 1984): 237-253.

Takeno, Fumiko. "Silence Was Audible: The Blithedale Romance Ni Miru Oto to Ongaku." Studies in American Literature 42 (2005): 1-16. Print.

Talley, Sharon, and Sara Slaughter. "Zenobia and Addie: Conceiving Death in the Blithedale Romance and as I Lay Dying." Feminist Studies in English Literature 18 2 (2010): 119-53. Print.

Tanner, Laura E. "Speaking with 'Hands at Our Throats': The Struggle for Artistic Voice in The Blithedale Romance." Studies in American Fiction 21.1 (Spring 1993): 1-19.

Temple, Gale. "'His Delirious Solace': Consumation, Consumption, and Reform in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance." ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 49.4 [193] (2003): 285-321.

Temple, Gale. "'Ineffable Socialities': Melville, Hawthorne, and Masculine Ambivalence in the Antebellum Marketplace." Hawthorne and Melville: Writing a Relationship. Eds. Argersinger, Jana L. and Leland S. Person. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 2008. xiv, 378 pp. Print.

Waggoner, Hyatt H. Hawthorne: A Critical Study . Revised Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1963.

Waite, James J. "Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Feminine Ethos." Journal of American Culture 11.4 (Winter 1988): 23-33.

Warren, Austin. "Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and 'Nemesis.'" PMLA 54 (1939): 615-18.

Weldon, Roberta F. "Tyrant King and Accused Queen: Father and Daughter in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance ." ATQ 6.1 (March 1992): 31-45.

Wershoven, C. J. "Doubles and Devils at Blithedale ." ATQ 58 (Dec. 1985): 43-54.

White, Craig. "A Utopia of 'Spheres and Sympathies': Science and Society in the Blithedale Romance and at Brook Farm." Utopian Studies: Journal of the Society for Utopian Studies 9.2 (1998): 78-102.

Zapf, Hubert. "The Poetological Theme in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance ." ATQ 60 (June 1986): 73-80.

 

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