Roberta Weldon is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston.
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.
Unholy Dying in The Scarlet Letter The Custom-House Sketch, The Secular Pilgrim, and The Happy Death Familial Immortality and the Dying of 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
"Weldon explores the heretofore occulted connections between the violence Hawthone's male protagonists directed against women and their fears of psychic disintegration, mortality, and social annihilation. Weldon's persuasive elaborations of this claim enable her to demonstrate, quite convincingly in my estimation, how the denial of death constitutes a transcultural and even a v structure of masculinist self-construction." - Donald Pease, Avalon Chair of Humanities and Director of the Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College
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.
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Roberta Weldon is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Unholy Dying in The Scarlet Letter The Custom-House Sketch, The Secular Pilgrim, and The Happy Death Familial Immortality and the Dying of 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
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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.
FAMOUS WRITER: Hawthorne is an important fixture in American culture. He is the most taught American writer in colleges and secondary schools and The Scarlet Letter is the most taught American novel. This book uses Hawthorne as a case study to explore our cultures values and systems of meaning. It invites its readers to consider such important questions as why do men in our culture associate women with death; why are men and women unable to get along; what is happiness and what are the obstacles to achieving it, and how do our strategies for denying death affect the living
ORIGINAL: This is a long overdue study of an important subject neglected in recent Hawthorne scholarship. Although Hawthorne was writing for a Christian audience, critics have been reluctant to consider Hawthornes Christianity. This book takes the bold step of considering Hawthornes Christianity and the challenges his novels pose to Christian ideology. It is the first full-length study of this subject in more than three decades. Critics continue to debate whether Hawthorne is anti or pro-feminist. Approaching Hawthornes fiction in light of cultural anthropology and theories about political justice, and death and dying, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issue
ACCESSIBLE: Theoretically sophisticated yet clearly written and accessible to specialist and non-specialist alike, this book breaks new ground in Hawthorne studies by drawing upon a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist theory to explain the complex nexus of ethical, gender, and religious questions at the core of his novels
