Hawthorne’s Habitations: A Literary Life
Oxford University Press, $47.95 hb, 336 pp, 9780199917259
Biography
The trials of St Nathaniel
by Shannon Burns •
Unlike Hawthorne: A Life (2003), Brenda Wineapple’s penetrating and engaging biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne’s Habitations, is a work of literary criticism informed by a narrow but fascinating range of biographical details and sources. These details support Robert Milder’s construction of an author ‘divided’ by contradictory drives that remained unresolved in Hawthorne’s fiction and life.
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