Dearest Beloved: The Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family.(The New Historicism: Studies in cultural poetics 24)
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This study reveals the conflicts beneath Nathaniel and SophiaHawthorne's ideal of married fulfilment and bliss, showing how theirmarriage reflected the tensions buried deep in 19th-century society. Itsheds light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive theme of guilt.
