The School of Hawthorne Reprint Edition

“[A] monumental study of literary influence….Lucid and superbly written.”–The Henry James Review

“Brodhead…proves here once again that he is a brilliant reader and a brilliant writer. In fact, one is almost inclined to distrust a prose so consistently and simultaneously dense and lucid and so studded with witty and wise phrases and sentences….A joy to read [and] an important and enduring contribution to the study of American literature and culture.”–The New England Quarterly

“An excellent and timely book….What Brodhead brings to his discussion is an admirable responsibility to previous scholarship and a freshness of approach informed by his historical grasp of the issues of canonicity.”–American Literature

“A sensitive, provocative, and intelligent study which should be required reading for any students of Hawthorne, of nineteenth-century American fiction, or of those elusive entities, literary canons and traditions….Put School of Hawthorne on your bookshelf next to Matthiessen, Levin, and Chase. It belongs there.”–Southern Humanities Review

“Brodhead writes beautiful prose, learned and discursive, yet at the same time admirably lucid and crisp. His work makes some indispensable contributions to the understanding of American literary history that ought to be of great importance to anyone seriously concerned with the subject.”–Lawrence Buell, Oberlin College

`Brodhead’s book is a very good addition to Hawthorne criticism as well as to the theory of how literary tradition is made and remade…will be a welcomed text in graduate and major university libraries.’ Choice
`Richard Brodhead…proves here once again that he is a brilliant reader and a brilliant writer. In fact, one is almost inclined to distrust a prose so consistently and simultaneously dense and lucid and so studded with witty and wise phrases and sentences…The School of Hawthorne Reprint Edition is a joy to read. But what will make it an important and enduring contribution to the study of American literature and culture is the wisdom of its argument…Richard Brodhead will become (dare one say it?) a `classic’ interpreter of American literature and of its complex history.’ New England Quarterly