Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature

Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality

AvSteven Petersheim

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-14
Mått:155 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498581196

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Djurböcker inom Djur och Natur

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

A much-needed and outstanding study of Hawthorne’s preoccupation with Nature, a neglected theme in Hawthorne studies. Steven Petersheim offers a comprehensive view of Hawthorne’s relationship to nature in his journals, correspondence, short fiction, travel sketches, and novels. With great verve, Petersheim describes Hawthorne’s ongoing fascination with nature from his college days onwards through his travels to Europe and shows unwitting similarities but ofttimes ruptures with his Transcendentalist neighbors in Concord in their assessment of nature. An indispensable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century American literature and environmental studies.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionThe Nature of Hawthorne’s Pastoral Romances Chapter OneInvestigating Hawthorne’s Nonfiction Nature Writing Chapter TwoObserving “the Laboratory of Nature” in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction Chapter ThreeReading Nature and the Human Body in The Scarlet LetterChapter FourMapping Blood and Biology in The House of the Seven GablesChapter FiveEt in Arcadia Ego: Adaptation and Natural Limits in The Blithedale RomanceChapter SixExploring the Ruins of the Human Animal in The Marble FaunChapter SevenPostscript: Hawthorne’s Unfinished Romances BibliographyAbout the Author