Description
| Product ID: | 9780230602908 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Hawthorne, Gender, and Death |
| Subtitle: | Christianity and Its Discontents |
| Authors: | Author: R. Weldon |
| Page Count: | 203 |
| Subjects: | Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Fiction and Related items, Christianity, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Fiction & related items, Christianity, Gender studies, gender groups |
| Description: | This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist theory, to consider the ways that strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations offer insight into the ethical, gender, and religious questions raised by Hawthorne's novels. The strategies that people use to come to terms with death mirror cultural beliefs about such crucial concerns as life''s purpose, the idea of happiness, and the nature of ethical relationships. This book considers Nathaniel Hawthorne''s representations of strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations--emphasizing their effects on the relationship between men and women. Drawing upon a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, feminist theory, and formal analysis, Weldon''s thought-provoking study offers fresh insights into the ethical, gender, and religious questions raised by Hawthorne''s novels. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2008-05-19 |
