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JANE LUNDBLAD (ESSAY DATE 1946)

SOURCE: Lundblad, Jane. "Hawthorne and the Gothic Romance." In Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Tradition of The Gothic Romance. 1946. Reprint edition, pp. 24-94. New York: Haskell House, 1964.

In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in 1946, Lundblad surveys the impact of Gothic works on Hawthorne's writing.

The student of Hawthorne's life and writings is usually regarded as a privileged person because of the fact that Hawthorne's posthumous notebooks, manuscripts, and letters have been so scrupulously kept and published. It is true that his widow, out of misguided zeal and exaggerated modesty, made a great many deletions and alterations in his manuscripts before she authorized their publication, in order to weed out items and remarks concerning the family or herself that she deemed improper. But on the whole, all this extensive material remains intact. Day...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Nathaniel Hawthorne (Story Date 1830)
4. General Commentary
   1. Neal Frank Doubleday (Essay Date February 1946)
   2. Jane Lundblad (Essay Date 1946)
5. Title Commentary
   1. The Marble Faun
6. Further Reading

1. Nathaniel Hawthorne