Name: The House of the Seven Gables: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
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The House of the Seven Gables

A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)

By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine (Edited by)

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Paperback, 504 pages

Published

United States, 29 September 2020

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

The first edition of the novel, published in 1851 by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.

Robert S. Levine's insightful introduction, revised headnotes, expanded explanatory footnotes, and note on the text and annotations.

A generous selection of carefully chosen primary materials-three of them new to the Second Edition-intended to provide readers with essential backgrounds on the novel's major themes.

An extensive selection of critical responses to The House of the Seven Gables from the time of its publication to the present day, including eight new to the Second Edition.

A chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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This Norton Critical Edition includes:

The first edition of the novel, published in 1851 by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.

Robert S. Levine's insightful introduction, revised headnotes, expanded explanatory footnotes, and note on the text and annotations.

A generous selection of carefully chosen primary materials-three of them new to the Second Edition-intended to provide readers with essential backgrounds on the novel's major themes.

An extensive selection of critical responses to The House of the Seven Gables from the time of its publication to the present day, including eight new to the Second Edition.

A chronology of Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and work and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

EAN

9780393679465

ISBN

0393679462

Writer

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert S. Levine

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Dimensions

21.6 x 13.2 x 2.5 centimeters (0.49 kg)

About the Author

Robert S. Levine (Ph.D. Stanford; General Editor and Editor, 1820–1865) is Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville; Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity; Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism; The Lives of Frederick Douglas; Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies; and (upcoming from Norton) The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. He has edited a number of books, including The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville and Norton Critical Editions of Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables and Melville’s Pierre. Levine has received fellowships from the NEH and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 2014 the American Literature Section of the MLA awarded him the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies.