Hawthorne, gender, and death[electro...
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, (1804-1864)

 

  • Hawthorne, gender, and death[electronic resource] :Christianity and its discontents /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 813/.3
    書名/作者: Hawthorne, gender, and death : Christianity and its discontents // Roberta Weldon.
    作者: Weldon, Roberta,
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2008.
    面頁冊數: x, 203 p.
    標題: Death in literature.
    標題: Mourning customs in literature.
    標題: Death - Social aspects - 19th century. - United States
    標題: Christianity and literature - History - 19th century. - United States
    標題: Sex role in literature.
    標題: Ethics in literature.
    ISBN: 9780230612082
    ISBN: 0230612083
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
    內容註: Unholy dying in The scarlet letter -- "The custom-house," the secular pilgrim, and the happy death -- "Familial immortality" and the "dyingof death" in The house of the seven gables -- From melancholy to mourning: death and politics in The Blithedale romance -- "Intimate equality": sacrifice and death in The marble faun.
    摘要、提要註: The strategies that people use to come to terms with death mirror cultural beliefs about suchcrucial 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 denialand 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 b2 ssthought-provoking study offers fresh insights into the ethical, gender, and religious questions raised by Hawthorne's novels.
    電子資源: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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