Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editorial Note
Part 1. Historical Introduction
I. The Problem of Recovery
II. The Critical Foreground
III. The Critics: A Biographical Overview
IV. The French Face(s) of Nathaniel Hawthorne
V. The Critical Legacy
Part 2. Transatlantic Reflections: The French Reception of Nathaniel Hawthorne
VI. Paul Émile-Daurand Forgues: “American Poets and Novelists: Nathaniel Hawthorne” (1852)
VII. Émile Montégut: “A Socialist Novel in America” (1852)
VIII. Louis Étienne: “American Storytellers: Nathaniel Hawthorne” (1857)
IX. Émile Montégut: “A Pessimistic Novelist in America” (1860)
X. Louis Étienne: “The Transcendentalist Novel in America” (1860)
XI. Émile Montégut: “Nathaniel Hawthorne” (1864)
Biographical Register
Works Cited
Index