Hawthorne, Gender, and Death
Christianity and Its Discontents
Authors: Weldon, R.
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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.
- About the authors
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Roberta Weldon is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston.
- Reviews
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"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
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-12
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Unholy Dying in The Scarlet Letter
Pages 13-31
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“The Custom-House,” the Secular Pilgrim, and the Happy Death
Pages 33-51
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“Familial Immortality” and the “Dying of Death” in The House of the Seven Gables
Pages 53-81
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From Melancholy to Mourning: Death and Politics in The Blithedale Romance
Pages 83-111
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Hawthorne, Gender, and Death
- Book Subtitle
- Christianity and Its Discontents
- Authors
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- R. Weldon
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Roberta Weldon
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-61208-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230612082
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-60290-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-37129-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 203
- Topics
