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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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SCOPE: Nathaniel Hawthorne was a New England writer whose writing is a combination of romance and psychological realism. His Puritan background provides the atmosphere for his books. The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables were widely acclaimed.

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Books written by and about Nathaniel Hawthorne have the call number(s):
PS 188.B8
PS 1892
PS 1887
PS 181

Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

Bunge, Nancy L. Nathaniel Hawthorne: a Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993.

Cady, Edwin H. and Louis J. Budd. On Hawthorne. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990.

Swann, Charles. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tradition and Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Wineapple, Brenda. Hawthorne: A Life. New York: Random House, 2004.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 1 The American Renaissance in New England

REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

WEB SITES

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

Literary Resources on the Net
http://newark.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/american.html

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Updated 02/08/2007