Bøker av Robert (Professor of English Milder

Hawthorne's Habitations draws on letters, manuscripts, and the author's little studied French and Italian notebooks, to present a portrait of four fascinating locations in the middle of the nineteenth century and offer a convincing portrait of the way place informed Hawthorne's melancholy psychology and dark style.

A literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career. Four of the ten essays deal with Melville's life and work after his novelistic career ended with the "The Confidence-Man" in 1857. This book takes its origin from Ishmael's account of "the larger, darker, deeper part of Ahab".