Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthornecb

Informationen zum Autor Steven Petersheim is associate professor of American literature at Indiana University East and coeditor of Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature. Klappentext This book examines how Hawthorne’s notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthorne’s four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined. Zusammenfassung This book examines how Hawthorne’s notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthorne’s four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Steven Petersheim, Petersheim Steven
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781498581172
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8117-2
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, Die Natur: Sachbuch, NATURE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, natural history, Cultural Change, Environmental literature, Human Nature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nature, New England landscape, Pastoral, Romance, Transcendentalism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Nature and the natural world: general interest