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Publication details [#1482]

Deutsch, Helen. 2013. The Scaffold in the Marketplace: Samuel Johnson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Romance of Authorship. Nineteenth-Century Literature 68 (3) : 363–395. 33 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
anecdote | mini-narrative | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Samuel Johnson | The Scarlet Letter | transatlantic authorship

Abstract

The article looks at anecdote as a mini-narrative, which plays an important role in structuring the story in which it is embedded. In fact various motifs can emerge from the anecdote and inspire alternative accounts of the histories.