Steven Petersheim

Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature (eBook, ePUB)

Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world. This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne's romances and other writings. Hawthorne's sense of kinship with the natural world runs deep in his work, particularly when his fiction is examined alongside his voluminous notebooks. Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature also contributes to the growing scholarly work aiming to illuminate Hawthorne as a writer deeply engaged in the issues of his day, particularly involving the environment, rather than an author simply interested in reinterpreting colonial history. Today's readers stand to gain a rich new understanding of Hawthorne by reassessing Hawthorne's attitude toward the natural world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498581189
• Artikelnr.: 58716086

Autorenporträt

By Steven Petersheim

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction The Nature of Hawthorne's Pastoral Romances
Chapter One Investigating Hawthorne's Nonfiction Nature Writing Chapter Two
Observing "the Laboratory of Nature" in Hawthorne's Short Fiction Chapter
Three Reading Nature and the Human Body in The Scarlet Letter Chapter Four
Mapping Blood and Biology in The House of the Seven Gables Chapter Five Et
in Arcadia Ego: Adaptation and Natural Limits in The Blithedale Romance
Chapter Six Exploring the Ruins of the Human Animal in The Marble Faun
Chapter Seven Postscript: Hawthorne's Unfinished Romances Bibliography
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