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Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the Making of the Middle-Class Family
Dearest Beloved The Hawthornes and the Making of the MiddleClass Family Author:T. Walter Herbert The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthornefor their contemporaries a model of true love and married happinesswas also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century societ... more »y. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.« less