page_title: Hawthorne and His Mosses
hierarchical_section_title: Hawthorne and His Mosses
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page for Mosses from an Old Manse by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Published by Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
context_page_description: "Hawthorne and His Mosses" is an essay and critical review by Herman Melville of the short story collection Mosses from an Old Manse written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1846. Published pseudonymously by "a Virginian spending July in Vermont", it appeared in The Literary World magazine in two issues: August 17 and August 24, 1850. An early, literary expression of the mid-nineteenth century Young America movement, the work has been cited as an important commentary on, and analysis of, the emerging "New American Literature."
context_section_description: "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850) is an essay and critical review by Herman Melville of the short story collection Mosses from an Old Manse written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1846. Published pseudonymously by "a Virginian spending July in Vermont", it appeared in The Literary World magazine in two issues: August 17 and August 24, 1850. An early, literary expression of the mid-nineteenth century Young America movement, the work has been cited as an important commentary on, and analysis of, the emerging "New American Literature."
caption: Title page of Mosses from an Old Manse, the subject of Melville's review
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