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...prize of about $5500, sponsored by the French Ministries of Justice and Foreign Affairs, is given for work in the spirit of the nineteenth-century French philosopher and historian Alexis de Tocqueville...
...text. In his account of Hawthorne's visit to Niagara Falls in 1832, he mentions, somewhat fastidiously, that the author felt an initial sense of disappointment upon viewing the falls; but he makes no attempt to assess Hawthorne's deeper reaction to Niagara, which represented, for many mid-nineteenth-century Americans, the symbol of the American sublime. Towards the end of the book, Mellow describes Hawthorne's increasingly reclusive nature on the basis of remarks from his letters, but he offers no explanation for the change in Hawthorne's behavior. Nor, aside from several asides about the nature of their...
...title of the biography seems to indicate that the book will place Hawthorne in his proper historical context. Hawthorne numbered among his acquaintances some of the most well-known literary and political figures of the mid-nineteenth century, English as well as American. But Mellow's treatment of the author's contemporaries is also disappointing. Throughout the book, he indulges in long asides describing the literary currents and political conflicts in Hawthorne's day, yet he rarely makes any attempt to place Hawthorne in their midst. He offers no interpretation of Hawthorne's relationship to the Transcendentalists, only observing that...
...discovery of dinosaurs in the nineteenth century provided, or so it appeared, a quintessential case for the negative correlation of size and smarts. With their pea brains and giant bodies, dinosaurs became a symbol of lumbering stupidity. Their extinction seemed only to confirm their flawed design...
...eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god." It deeply affected painting as well as literature, and those influences are the subject of Art Historian Barbara Novak's remarkable book. "Meditation on nature in the nineteenth century," she points out, "was a recognized avenue to the center of being ... 'Looking' became an act of devotion." Thus American landscape and its contents, the effects of light, weather, distance and time, were seen as the unedited manuscript of God. He had written his designs in great...