纳撒尼尔·霍桑
2008-8-1
上海外语教育出版社
佩尔森 (Person.L.S.),朱振武,导读
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我们有幸将“剑桥文学名家研习系列”(美国卷)丛书推荐给我国有关专业的本科生、研究生和外国文学爱好者。这一套著名大学出版社的英文原版文学丛书，以普及、介绍和导读为宗旨，集权威性和可读性于一体，原汁原味但又浅近易懂，特色鲜明，十分难得。丛书是开放式的，我们首先推出第一系列共七册，包括诗人惠特曼、狄金森、庞德，作家霍桑、麦尔维尔、马克．吐温和菲茨杰拉德。这些美国作家和诗人都是我国知识界和文化青年熟知的名字——至少是应该知道的名字。他们都是美国主流文学的台柱，他们的作品影响巨大，能够反映或折射当时的历史和社会状况，并仍然能给今天的我们带来启示。他们是世界文化遗产的一部分，属于美国，也属于全世界。文学不是历史。它不仅仅局限于“记录”事件，进行冷冰冰的梳理归纳，而着力“再现”民族发展过程中或个人生活认识中典型的、生动的实例，这些个案可供放大观察，分析阐释，从中解读出人文环境的很多信息，提供人生经验。文学无疆界，这是因为不同的民族、历史、个体的发展或成长经历中有许多共性的东西，超越时空和文化，可以在中国读者心灵上唤起共鸣。人类生活的许多体验往往处于一种模糊散乱的“悬浮”状态，是我们的语言所不足以表达的。文学作品，尤其是经过时间考验的文学经典，可以为我们提供经验的拐杖，通过了解他人的体验，更加深刻地认识我们自己，认识生活。我们希望本系列丛书能带您走近文学大师，了解他们的生平创作与思想情感，进而更多地去阅读他们的作品，从中获得借鉴和启迪。在中国，我们常讲‘‘学以致用”。“学以致用”固然没错，但不全面。“学以致知”才应是更普遍、甚至更高的目标。很多学科都不是以“致用”为目的的，如哲学、美学、伦理学等。以是否实用为标准，实际上是将人类文化知识的传承降格、贬黜、庸俗化了。
作为《红字》的作者，纳撒尼尔·霍桑被看作是19世纪一名主要作家。这部为学生撰写的研习本以深入浅出、生动活泼的文字评述了霍桑的一生及其创作情况，对他重要的短篇小说和其他作品进行细致的分析，同时简要回顾和评介其学术成就。研读19世纪美国文学的学生会发现这部研习之书不独引人入胜，而且大有裨益。
作者：(美国)佩尔森 (Person.L.S.)
A note on the textsPrefaceChapter 1 Hawthorne's lifeChapter 2 Hawthorne's contexts Puritanism Transcendentalism Feminism and scribbling women Race, slavery, and abolition Nineteenth-century manhoodChapter 3 Hawthorne's short fiction “Alice Doane's Appeal” “Roger Malvin's Burial” “The Gentle Boy” “Young Goodman Brown” “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” “Endicott and the Red Cross” “The Minister's Black Veil” “Wakefield” “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” “Monsieur du Miroir” “The New Adam and Eve” “The Birth-mark“ “The Artist of the Beautiful” “Rappaccini's Daughter” “Drowne's Wooden Image”Chapter 4 Hawthorne's novels The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables The Blithedale Romance The Marble FaunChapter 5 Hawthorne's critics Biography CriticismNotesGuide to further readingIndex
Despite Hawthorne's reputation as a romancer who preferred to create a "neu- tral territory, somewhere between the real world and fairy-land" (1: 36) and seemed intent upon liberating his tales and novels from the everyday world, he paid careful attention to historical settings for most of his literary works. He conducted his research, often reading extensively in historical sources, but he routinely changed facts to suit his imaginative purpose. He often sought historical distance as a way of dealing with volatile contemporary issues, such as slavery or women's rights. Regardless of a work's situation in history, how- ever, readers must deal with a tension between historical moments. The Scarlet Letter offers the best case in point. Set in Puritan Boston between 1642 and 1649 (the years of the English Civil War), the novel owes a great deal to seventeenth- century sources, but the most interesting recent research has emphasized the book's treatment of nineteenth-century issues. A key challenge for readers often means figuring out how Hawthorne's use of early history helps him deal with more contemporary matters.Puritanism and the history of early Massachusetts settlements- Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Salem - form one important context in which to under- stand Hawthorne's writing. Hawthorne read widely in seventeenth-century history, both English and American. Scholars such as Charles Ryskamp and Michael Colacurcio have meticulously connected characters and events in The Scarlet Letter and other works to the New England historical record.1 The]ournal of John Winthrop and Winthrop's The History of New England from 1630 to 1649 (1825-26), Caleb H. Snow's A tlistory of Boston (1825), and Joseph Felt's The Annals of Salem from Its First Settlement (1827) represent especially important sources from which Hawthorne took background information. He also drew upon aspects of his personal history. In both "Young Goodman Brown" and The Scarlet Letter, he refers to his earliest American ancestors.
《纳撒尼尔·霍桑》是第一部以清晰晓畅、浅显易懂的语言把霍桑的生平与创作的全貌完整呈现给广大读者的著作。作者佩尔森把霍桑的创作和他的居家生活、社会语境特别是宗教语境以及妻子对他的影响紧密联系起来，条分缕析，从寻常材料中发现新意，从普通话题中挖掘深味。深入浅出，生动鲜活，对于那些想对自己钟爱的作品及其作家增进了解的读者更具吸引力，而且简洁明了，没有半点学究固态，可以说是师生们的理想用书，对于在高校研读文学课的研究生及高年级的本科生来说十分实用。
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好，深入浅出，是一本关于霍桑的好作品
是个很好的书.印刷质量也很好.清楚明了.正如书中所写,通俗易懂,适合英语专业的老师和学生看.对我非常有益/非常提高个人的专业知识水平.不过还是觉得有点小贵.....虽然打折了
个人感觉书中对每部作品的分析角度都还比较传统，角度单一。
只有144页，原以会挺厚实，是全英文的
寫學年論文的用書,可是對於學中文的人而言,英語書看得好痛苦..
对霍桑的研究也算比较详细了，也比较权威。对论文写作也有一定得帮助