Melville's Carnival Neighborhood

Treatments of the relationship between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have tended to focus on it as a failed friendship or aborted romance —as inspiring in Melville hopes and longings that Hawthorne could never fulfill. Viewed as a relationship between neighbors, not only friends or lovers,...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:7325fe2e159946038038416a61ffbcaa2021-12-02T18:10:44ZMelville's Carnival Neighborhood1136-57812013-9470https://doaj.org/article/7325fe2e159946038038416a61ffbcaa2014-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/lectora/article/view/10721https://doaj.org/toc/1136-5781https://doaj.org/toc/2013-9470Treatments of the relationship between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have tended to focus on it as a failed friendship or aborted romance —as inspiring in Melville hopes and longings that Hawthorne could never fulfill. Viewed as a relationship between neighbors, not only friends or lovers, and seen through the prism of unconsidered works like Melville’s Israel Potter (1854­5, 1855) and “The Encantadas” (1854, 1856), the connection might look slightly different. For as neighbors Hawthorne and Melville may have found opportunities for greater freedom, fluidity, and festivity than friendship or love could always offer. Taking place in the carnival neighborhood of their redoubtable friend, Sarah Huyler Morewood, Hawthorne’s and Melville’s relationship may have explored some of her subversive energies as well.Wyn KelleyUniversitat de BarcelonaarticleHerman MelvilleNathaniel Hawthornemale friendshipcarnivalRalph Waldo EmersonMikhail BakhtinWomen. FeminismHQ1101-2030.7CAENESEUFRGLITPTLectora: Revista de Dones i Textualitat, Iss 20 (2014)
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topic Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
male friendship
carnival
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mikhail Bakhtin
Women. Feminism
HQ1101-2030.7
spellingShingle Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
male friendship
carnival
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mikhail Bakhtin
Women. Feminism
HQ1101-2030.7
Wyn Kelley
Melville's Carnival Neighborhood
description Treatments of the relationship between Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville have tended to focus on it as a failed friendship or aborted romance —as inspiring in Melville hopes and longings that Hawthorne could never fulfill. Viewed as a relationship between neighbors, not only friends or lovers, and seen through the prism of unconsidered works like Melville’s Israel Potter (1854­5, 1855) and “The Encantadas” (1854, 1856), the connection might look slightly different. For as neighbors Hawthorne and Melville may have found opportunities for greater freedom, fluidity, and festivity than friendship or love could always offer. Taking place in the carnival neighborhood of their redoubtable friend, Sarah Huyler Morewood, Hawthorne’s and Melville’s relationship may have explored some of her subversive energies as well.
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