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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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230612082 |
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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. |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
Carrier Form: | 224 p. |
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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. |