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Hawthorne, gender, and death Christianity and its discontents /

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 que...

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Main Authors: Weldon, Roberta
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers > USA
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > USA
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230612082
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Ebook.
Originally published in: 2008.
Carrier Form: 224 p.
ISBN: 9780230602908
9780230612082 :
0230612083 :
CLC: I11
Contents: 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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