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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hawthorne, Nathaniel <1804-1864> - Et la psychologie.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel <1804-1864> - Pensée politique et sociale.; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; A Andrae; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joel Pfister |
ISBN: | 0804719470 9780804719476 0804719489 9780804719483 |
OCLC Number: | 23869901 |
Description: | viii, 252 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Hawthorne and the history of personal life -- Historical birthmarks: Hawthorne and the cultural production of the psychological self -- Monsters in the hothouse: Monstrous expectations in "Rappacini's Daughter" -- Plotting womanhood: Feminine evolution and narrative feminization in 'Blithedale' -- Melville's birthmarks: The feminization industry -- Sowing dragons' teeth: Personal life and revolution in 'The Scarlet Letter' -- Cleaning house: From the Gothic to the Middle-Class world order -- Disciplinary misrepresentation: Reconstructing Miriam's Hand -- Coda -- Hawthorne, the disturbing influence, and the process of class formation. |
Responsibility: | Joel Pfister. |
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Abstract:
A book that aims both to demystify and to reconstitute 'Hawthorne' as an object of study by rereading Hawthorne's fictions, mainly those from the early 1840's to 1860, in the context of the emergence of a distinctively middle-class personal life (the domestic emotional revolution that accompanied the industrial revolution.
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"A provocative yet sensible reading, a welcome contribution to debates on Hawthorne's gender politics and to the new scholarship in domestic ideology." -- <I>American Literature</I> "Pfister merges the best of both new historical and cultural studies in his treatment of the novels and the cultural ambivalence-about domesticity, motherhood, and the middle class-that Hawthorne's career illustrates." -- <I>Studies in Short Fiction</I> Read more...
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