The Use of "Identity" in Literature. Some Remarks on its Use in Hawthorne´s "Blithedale Romance" and Melville´s "Pierre"

Academic Paper from the year 1974 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (English Department), language: English, abstract: The aim of this essay is a comparison of the use uf "identity" in two works of American 19th century literature: Nathaniel Hawthrone´s "Blithedale Romance" and Hermann Melville´s" Pierre". In a first part, the concept of...