Jana L. Argersinger (Editor)
JANA L. ARGERSINGER is a coeditor of ESQ: A Journal of the American
Renaissance and Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism and serves as
president of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.
Leland S. Person (Editor)
LELAND S. PERSON is a professor of English at the University of
Cincinnati. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to
Nathaniel Hawthorne.
This engaging—sometimes even moving—collection produces a
compelling, multidirectional dialogue about how readers might
understand the substance of the provocatively cryptic relationship
between Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Whatever their
answers, the essays included here manage to convey the critical
liveliness that each scholar brings to the incomplete dialogue
between these two centrally important U.S. writers.
*Vanderbilt University*
This provocative book, as it examines the complex relationship
between Hawthorne and Melville, yields a series of engrossing and
deeply informed readings of their lives and their works. The
contributors to this volume have obviously freed themselves from
the tradition of a cautious and muted approach to the
Hawthorne-Melville relationship and, by taking a new, boldly
imaginative and speculative approach, have arrived at rich new
understandings of the relationship, especially its sexual and
political dynamics. The result is a major contribution to
scholarship of the period.
*author of European Revolutions and the American Literary
Renaissance*
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