Hawthorne's Romances - Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Hawthorne, Geometry and Social Drama; Chapter 2 The Circle of My Glance; Chapter 3 I Am Not the Fool You Take Me for; Chapter 4 The Sphere of Thought and Feeling; Chapter 5 The Topsy-Turvy Commonwealth of Sleep; Chapter 6 The Epoch of Annihilated Space; Chapter 7 Into This Labyrinth of Darkness;

About the author

Robert S. Freidman New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey, USA

Summary

First Published in 2000. Throughout the nineteenth century, the study of geometry remained at the core of educational curricula in the United States, strongly affecting how educated Americans construed their world. This book examines how each of Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances presents a different geometric figure that becomes representative of the work's themes and narrative designs. These geometric figures, when approached from the perspective of Victor Turner's symbolic anthropology, server as cultural mediators, combining geometric symbology with a unique narrative perspective to offer metaphors of personal and cultural boundaries, Freidman presents the literary text as the point of intersection among such disciplines as cultural anthropology, history, mathematics and American literature.

Product details

• Authors: Robert S. Friedman, Friedman Robert S.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2000
• EAN: 9789057026058
• ISBN: 978-90-5702-605-8
• No. of pages: 193
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: The Library of Anthropology; The Library of Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, American English, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form