Hawthorne's Magnetic Chain: The Achievement of Humanity

Author

Anne Bail Howard

Publication Date

4-4-1966

Abstract

In May of 1840 Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his fiancée, Sophia Peabody, the observation that while “lights and shadows are continually flitting across my inward sky… it is dangerous to look too minutely into such phenomena,” because, as he continued, “it is apt to create a substance where at first there was a mere shadow.”

Degree Name

English

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

English

First Committee Member (Chair)

George Warren Arms

Second Committee Member

William Miner Dabney

Third Committee Member

Ernest Warren Baughman

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Recommended Citation

Howard, Anne Bail. "Hawthorne's Magnetic Chain: The Achievement of Humanity." (1966). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/engl_etds/459