Hawthorne, Sculpture, and the Question of American Art

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Hawthorne, Sculpture, and the Question of American Art is written by Deanna Fernie and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754654796 (ISBN 10) and 9780754654797 (ISBN 13).

Analyzing sculpture in Hawthorne's fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment, in its double guise as ruin and project, Deanna Fernie establishes the intellectual contexts for her study through a discussion of sculpture and fragmentary form as revealed in American, British, and Continental thought. Her book will be an important text not only for American literature scholars but also for anyone interested in British and Continental Romanticism and the intersections of art and literature.