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Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe: Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel

G. R. Thompson & Virgil L. Lokke

First published	1981
Publisher	Purdue University Press
Format	Hardcover
Type	Nonfiction
Pages	xix+383
Price	$15.75
ISBN	0911198601

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Page	Title	Author(s)	Type
1	Darrel Abel: A Memoir	Chester E. Eisinger	Essay
15	The Critic in the Context of His Time	Virgil L. Lokke	Essay
27	The Chaotic Legacy of the New Criticism and the Fair Augury of the New Scholarship	Brian Higgins & Hershel Parker	Essay
49	The Significance of Plot in Hawthorne's Romances	Nina Baym	Essay
71	Hawthorne's Literal Figures	Roy R. Male	Essay
93	Romantic Iconology in The Scarlet Letter and The Blithedale Romance	Donald A. Ringe	Essay
109	Art and Illusion: Coleridgean Assumptions in Hawthorne's Tales and Sketches	Richard Harter Fogle	Essay
129	"Rappacini's Daughter" and the Nineteenth-Century Physician	Seymour L. Gross	Essay
143	Eve's Bower: Hawthorne's Transition from Public Doctrines to Private Truths	William H. Shurr	Essay
173	Some "Mosses" from the Literary World: A Critical and Bibliographical Survey of the Hawthorne-Melville Relationship	Buford Jones	Essay
205	Nemo Contra Deum...: Melville and Goethe's "Demonic"	Robert Milder	Essay
245	Nine Good Jokes: The Redemptive Humor of the Confidence-Man and The Confidence Man	Richard Boyd Hauck	Essay
283	Poe's Unnecessary Angel: "Israfel" Reconsidered	Barton Levi St. Armand	Essay
303	A Misreading of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"	Patrick F. Quinn	Essay
313	Poe and the Paradox of Terror: Structures of Heightened Consciousness in "The Fall of the House of Usher"	G. R. Thompson	Essay
341	"Usher" Again: Trust the Teller!	Patrick F. Quinn	Essay
355	Playful "Germanism" in "The Fall of the House of Usher": The Storyteller's Art	Benjamin Franklin Fisher, IV	Essay
ix	Preface (Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe: Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel)	G. R. Thompson & Virgil L. Lokke	Essay