A Thick and Darksome Veil: Rhetoric of Hawthorne's Sketches, Prefaces and Essays

By Thomas R. Moore

Moore (rhetoric, Boston U.) looks at Hawthorne's lesser known works and finds there the main stage in which he grappled with the tension between his desire for truth and the public's demand for sentimentality and nostalgia. He dealt with the problem by creating a narrative persona very different fro

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555531849
• ISBN13: 9781555531843
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Northeastern University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.