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The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes
Surveying Hawthorne's entire career, from his earliest surviving stories through the romances left unfinished at his death, Frederick Crews defines the terms of Hawthorne's self-debate as revealed in his fiction. Hawthorne emerges from this study as a writer of acute psychological awareness.
In an Afterword written for this edition, Crews interrogates his own argument with characteristic unsparingness. He candidly reassesses the theoretical commitments behind his book, reflects on the path taken by Hawthorne criticism since 1966, and answers the question that many readers have asked of this ex-Freudian: "How much, today, remains valid in The Sins of the Fathers?" This essay is itself a significant contribution to the current debate over the role of 'theory' in literary studies.
In an Afterword written for this edition, Crews interrogates his own argument with characteristic unsparingness. He candidly reassesses the theoretical commitments behind his book, reflects on the path taken by Hawthorne criticism since 1966, and answers the question that many readers have asked of this ex-Freudian: "How much, today, remains valid in The Sins of the Fathers?" This essay is itself a significant contribution to the current debate over the role of 'theory' in literary studies.
Book Details
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: Oct 12nd, 1989
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.58in - 5.46in - 0.76in - 0.94lb
- EAN: 9780520068179
- Categories: • American - General• Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Frederick Crews is Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, and author of Skeptical Engagements (1986) and Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method (1975).
Praise for this book
"Besides giving us insight into his subject, [Frederick Crews] has restored its power to fascinate, to engage our minds in dialectic both with it and him. This is the definition of first-rate criticism."--Charles Thomas Samuels, "Commonweal