Session 13-B: “A is for Abortion: Reading Hawthorne’s Political Relevance Today” (Essex North West)

ORGANIZED BY THE NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE SOCIETY

Moderator: Charles Baraw, Southern Connecticut State University

Auctions of Hawthorne writings and other nineteenth-century writings in the Bruce M. Lisman Collection of Important American Literature occurred recently at Christie’s, New York. For more information, including items sold, see the link provided.

Last time we published a special issue on Hawthorne’s Gothic was Fall 2012. I think it’s time to look at Hawthorne’s Gothic with a new critical lens, as so much has appeared in Gothic studies since then. We are looking for essays between 6,500 and 7,500 words on diverse topics, such as: Hawthorne and ecoGothic; gender reevaluations and the Gothic; how Hawthorne’s stay in Europe changed his view of the Gothic (culminating in The Marble Faun); Gothic family patterns; outsiders and insiders in Hawthorne’s Gothic (including changing concepts...

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