Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance

Robert Daly (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1852

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United States (Country of Origin)

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Allegory
Historical
Novel
Romance

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With

The Scarlet Letter

selling well, 1851 was a promising year for Hawthorne. Melville published

Moby-Dick

and dedicated it to him. His friend and publisher, James T. Fields, urged him to keep up the momentum and promised to help. In March Hawthorne published a new edition of

Twice-Told Tales

. In April

The House of the Seven Gables

was published to good reviews. On 20 May, his daughter Rose was born. In November he published

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

, and the family moved to West Newton, Massachusetts, not far from West Roxbury, some eight miles southwest of Boston, where Hawthorne had lived at the Transcendentalist utopian community of Brook Farm from 12 April 1841 till January of 1842. In December he published

The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales

. On 25 July 1851 he wrote…

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Citation: Daly, Robert. "The Blithedale Romance". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 September 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1435, accessed 23 November 2024.]

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance

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