Dearest Beloved(English, Paperback, Herbert T. Walter)

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Dearest Beloved(English, Paperback, Herbert T. Walter) is written by Herbert T. Walter and published by University of California Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0520201558 (ISBN 10) and 9780520201552 (ISBN 13).

The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne--for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness--was 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 society. 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.