The element of objectivity in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances

dc.contributor.advisorEby, E. H.
dc.contributor.authorAplington, Kenneth Anthony
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-30T17:54:56Z
dc.date.available2019-09-30T17:54:56Z
dc.date.issued1942
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 1941
dc.description.abstractThis thesis has for its purpose the vindication of Nathaniel Hawthorne's claim that his fiction was objective. It is not immediately evident that Hawthorne had taken pains to define, even for himself, the term objective. From such statements as he made in reference to it he seems to confuse objectivity with universality, as the following quotation will show: It is this involuntary reserve, I suppose, that has given the objectivity to my writings; and when people think I am pouring out myself in a tale or an essay, I am merely telling what is common to human nature, not what is peculiar to myself.
dc.embargo.termsManuscript available on the University of Washington Campuses and via UW NetID. Full text may be available via Proquest's Dissertations and Theses Full Text database or through your local library's interlibrary loan service.
dc.format.extent57 leaves
dc.identifier.other20040082
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/44608
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subject.otherThesis--English
dc.titleThe element of objectivity in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances
dc.typeThesis

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