“Great Flood-Gates of the Wonder World”: Baptisms of Water and Fire in Melville and Hawthorne
In “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” Melville writes that “it is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite” (1170). Both Melville and Hawthorne take on subjects of infinitude and read them through elements essential to both spiritual and physical realms: water and fire. Whe...
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European Association for American Studies
2023-09-01
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