| In gratitude: I dedicate this work to Agnes McNeill Donohue, whose presence is always and everywhere before me. |
| For both the "Hawthorne" of this book, as well as the very book itself, I amin every sense of the wordprofoundly indebted to Edgar A. Dryden, without whom neither would have appeared. |
| For comments and suggestions for revisions, thanks to David L. Minter; for encouragement and correspondence, thanks to C. Carroll Hollis; for advice and friendship, thanks to R. W. B. Lewis. |
| I also wish to express my deepest thanks to Anthony LaBranche: some things must go unsaid. |
| The following friends and colleagues are inextricably part of this book: Monica Apostol, Andrew Chrucky, Michael Gessner, Robert Haas, Harold Hild, Michael Kilduff, Jack Leckel, Masood Otarod, Dennis Pahl, Veronica Polk, Suresh Raval, Clyde Robbins, Robert Shearer, Rudolph Stoeckel, Jan Stryz, Thomas Tierney, and Paul Vachon. |
| The book was made possible in part by two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars, the first directed by R. W. B. Lewis, Yale University, and the second directed by Edgar A. Dryden, University of Arizona; and a Fulbright Professorship in American Literature at the University of Turin, Italy. |
| Several sectionsrewritten and expanded for this bookhave previously appeared in article form. I'm grateful to the publishers for permission to reprint: "Hawthorne's Morphology of Alienation: The Psychosomatic Phenomenon," American Imago 41 (1984), 4762 [permission of Johns Hopkins University Press]; "Hawthorne's Metonymic Gaze: Image and Object," American Literature 56 (1984), 36278 [permission of Duke University Press]; ''Hawthorne's Blithedale: Narrative Ethos as Absence," Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 10 (1985), 15564; "Hawthorne's Gentle Reader: (The Hen) House of (Family) Romance," Arizona Quarterly 47 (1991), 2947 [permission of Arizona Board of Regents]; "Hawthorne's Tactile Gaze: The Phenomenon of Depth," |
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