Steven Petersheim

Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature

Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how Hawthorne's notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthorne's four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined.

Produktdetails

• Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781498581196
• ISBN-10: 1498581196
• Artikelnr.: 63623488

Autorenporträt

Steven Petersheim is 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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