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9%OFFMichael J. Colacurcio - The Province of Piety. Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales.  - 9780822315728 - V9780822315728
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The Province of Piety. Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales.

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Description for The Province of Piety. Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales. Paperback. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 251 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1036.
In this celebrated analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael J. Colacurcio presents a view of the author as America’s first significant intellectual historian. Colacurcio shows that Hawthorne’s fiction responds to a wide range of sermons, pamphlets, and religious tracts and debates—a variety of moral discourses at large in the world of provincial New England.
Informed by comprehensive historical research, the author shows that Hawthorne was steeped in New England historiography, particularly the sermon literature of the seventeenth century. But, as Colacurcio shows, Hawthorne did not merely borrow from the historical texts he deliberately studied; rather, he is best understood as having ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
688
Condition
New
Number of Pages
688
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822315728
SKU
V9780822315728
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About Michael J. Colacurcio
Michael J. Colacurcio is Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews for The Province of Piety. Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales.
"The Province of Piety is one of the most important studies in American literature of the present generation."—Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside "The most comprehensive and far reaching book on Hawthorne. Colacurcio’s treatment of the tales and Hawthorne’s intellectual biography, so vast and compelling, so rich in detail about the whole sweep of colonial and early republican thought, is ... Read more

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