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Hawthorne, Melville, And The Fiction Of Prophecy
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Abstract
As AN INSTANCE OF TRADITION FORMATION, Melville’s relation to Hawthorne is peculiar on at least two grounds. Figures of tradition stand as the great past for their successors. But Hawthorne was emphatically not past when Melville encountered him. Hawthorne was 46, or still in mid life, when Melville (then 31) met him in August 1850; and Hawthorne was still very much in mid-career. In the summer of 1850 Hawthorne was the writer of the two collections Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse, and only just of The Scarlet Letter: three of the four long romances we think of as Hawthorne’s major work were still unwritten when Melville discovered him.
Title: Hawthorne, Melville, And The Fiction Of Prophecy
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Abstract
As AN INSTANCE OF TRADITION FORMATION, Melville’s relation to Hawthorne is peculiar on at least two grounds.
Figures of tradition stand as the great past for their successors.
But Hawthorne was emphatically not past when Melville encountered him.
Hawthorne was 46, or still in mid life, when Melville (then 31) met him in August 1850; and Hawthorne was still very much in mid-career.
In the summer of 1850 Hawthorne was the writer of the two collections Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse, and only just of The Scarlet Letter: three of the four long romances we think of as Hawthorne’s major work were still unwritten when Melville discovered him.
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