Sharing Research - Hawthorne, Melville, Umar Khayyam

 I have been poking at my ideas for "Chasing Ashes", so let me share what I have found so far. Not that I am sure what I will use, or how to use what I find.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Meiosis of Americanism in The Marble Faun Rasoul Aliakbari

Masterpiece Theater: The Politics of Hawthorne's Literary Reputation Author(s): Jane Tompkins

THE 20th AND 21st CENTURY LITERARY AFTERLIVES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE MATTHEW HENRY KELLEY

Revisiting the "Hawthorne Problem"  DAVID C. CODY (which is the most promising to my mind, if only because its interest is an area of Hawthorne I knew nothing about.)

Walt Whitman 

Walt Whitman as a Critic of Literature  Maurice O. Johnson

Melville:

At 8 hours, I have only scratched the surface here:

Much shorter, and could be closer to what I am looking for, and could be part of the first:

First and third of three parts:

I made it through this one, not sure if it turned any of my gears:

This one is an hour-long college lecture:

I worry that the lectures will be academic - bloodless exhumations - when I am wanting to make sure that I have not misread, or forgotten too much of, Moby Dick. For me, Captain Ahab is American obsessiveness made incarnate - injured vanity and wanting to make money. At the same, I want even more to avoid fanboy/AI-generated twaddle.

Omar Khayyam

Umar Khayyam (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). This has been very helpful and probably saved me from cutting a character. Sometimes I need a reminder about what I do know.

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