Discover Why Hawthorne Was Melancholy: The Prophetic Poet And The Spirit Of The Age Translated By Marion Montgomery Offered As EPub

brilliant, entertaining and learned, Montgomery is an old school critic doing textual and contextual analysis, and so he discusses and develops the themes of Hawthorne's spiritual discontent, irony against the Transcendentalism of his age, religious conservatism and poetic freedom in context of the two hundred years of American and Continental literature before him and the hundred and fifty years of literature after him, following his often surprising analyses carefully and

meticulously through developments in culture, religion and politics.
It's rare to see such depth of thought so consistently and convincingly developed, This is the kind of book that can alter forever your approach to the works discussed and even to literature more generally, Montgomery's careful exegesis of Hawthorne's reaction to gnosticism and the ways in which gnosticism eventually became the dominant form of thought in America's colleges and academies is especially impressive.
Recommended by James Schall in Another Sort of Learning, Chapter, as one of Four Books on Philosophy and Literature by Marion Montgomery, .