Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne’s Damned Politics by Larry Reynolds
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Overview: "An outstanding combination of literary interpretation and cultural and historical context that will be an important addition to the critical literature on Hawthorne."
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
–-Nina Baym, University of Illinois
"It is difficult to imagine a more timely book than Devils and Rebels. Examining the role of the public intellectual and writer during a time of political conflict and war, Reynolds takes up his charges with great precision and historical finesse. What particularly distinguishes this book is its attention to the ways in which one of this country’s most important authors struggled to resist the waves of political extremism and patriotic hysteria that swept around him."
–-Jeffrey Steele, University of Wisconsin—Madison
Widely condemned even in his own time, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s views on abolitionism and slavery are today frequently characterized by scholars as morally reprehensible. Devils and Rebels explores the historical and biographical record to reveal striking evidence of the author’s true political values–-values grounded in pacifism and resistant to the kind of binary thinking that could lead to violence and war.
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