Hawthorne in Concord
By: Philip McFarland
Edition: 1st Grove Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780802142054
Subjects: American Novelists; Homes and haunts; Intellectual life; Biography; Homes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Forties : learning to be happy.  Wedding in Boston ; The Manse and historic Concord ; An end to solitude ; Concord in the Forties ; Visitors at the Manse ; Margaret Fuller and Henry Thoreau ; Hawthorne and Emerson together ; First Fall at the Manse ; Hawthorne's writing ; Two more weddings ; Rural utopias ; Seeking a livelihood ; Una ; Women in the nineteenth century ; The nation beyond Concord ; Leaving the Old Manse; title: The Fifties : we are politicians now. The wayside ; Return to Concord ; Concord in the Fifties ; Two novels ; Hawthorne and slavery ; Death by water ; Creating a life ; Days at the Wayside ; To Washington ; Departure for Europe; title: The Sixties : such a sad predicament. Once more to Concord ; Altering the Wayside ; Concord in the Sixties ; Secession ; Patriotic Americans ; In the Sky Parlor ; Touring with Ticknor ; War matters ; Family matters ; Our old home ; Last travels ; Release.