The Blithedale Romance / / Nathaniel Hawthorne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
• MitwirkendeR: Levine, Robert S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: The John Harvard Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

One of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s great romances, The Blithedale Romance draws upon the author’s experiences at Brook Farm, the short-lived utopian community where Hawthorne spent much of 1841. Blithedale (“Happy Valley”), another would-be modern Arcadia, is the stage for Hawthorne’s grimly comic tragedy (Henry James famously called the novel “the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest” of Hawthorne’s “unhumorous fictions”). In his introduction, Robert S. Levine considers biographical and historical contexts and offers a fresh appreciation of the novel’s ironic first-person narrator.The John Harvard Library edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Blithedale Romance in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Life -- Preface -- I Old Moodie -- II Blithedale -- III A Knot of Dreamers -- IV The Supper-Table -- V Until Bedtime -- VI Coverdale’s Sick-Chamber -- VII The Convalescent -- VIII A Modern Arcadia -- IX Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla -- X A Visitor from Town -- XI The Wood-Path -- XII Coverdale’s Hermitage -- XIII Zenobia’s Legend -- XIV Eliot’s Pulpit -- XV A Crisis -- XVI Leave-Takings -- XVII The Hotel -- XVIII The Boarding-House -- XIX Zenobia’s Drawing-Room -- XX They Vanish -- XXI An Old Acquaintance -- XXII Fauntleroy -- XXIII A Village-Hall -- XXIV The Masqueraders -- XXV The Three Together -- XXVI Zenobia and Coverdale -- XXVII Midnight -- XXVIII Blithedale-Pasture -- XXIX Miles Coverdale’s Confession -- Selected Bibliography