Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature
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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nature of Hawthorne’s Pastoral Romances
Chapter One. Investigating Hawthorne’s Nonfiction Nature Writing
Chapter Two. Observing “the Laboratory of Nature” in Hawthorne’s Short Fiction
Chapter Three. Reading Nature and the Human Body in The Scarlet Letter
Chapter Four. Mapping Blood and Biology in The House of the Seven Gables
Chapter Five. Et in Arcadia Ego: Adaptation and Natural Limits in The Blithedale Romance
Chapter Six. Exploring the Ruins of the Human Animal in The Marble Faun
Chapter Seven. Postscript: Hawthorne’s Unfinished Romances
Bibliography
About the Author
Steven Petersheim is an 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.
| Pm Supplier | Ingram Publisher Services UK (NBNi) |
|---|---|
| Pm Publisher | Lexington Books |
| Pm Isbn 10 | 1498581196 |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9781498581196 |
| Pm Publication Date | 2022-03-14 |
| Pm Width | 155 |
| Pm Height | 15 |
| Pm Author | Petersheim,Steven |
| Pm Longness | 230 |
- Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality
- Author: Petersheim,Steven
- Page Count: 246
- Publication Date: 2022-03-14
Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature
- Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality
- Author: Petersheim,Steven
- Page Count: 246
- Publication Date: 2022-03-14
