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Hawthorne, Gender, and Death: Christianity and Its Discontents
R. Weldon
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Description for Hawthorne, Gender, and Death: Christianity and Its Discontents
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 213 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
203
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230602908
SKU
V9780230602908
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About R. Weldon
Roberta Weldon is Associate Professor of English at University of Houston.
Reviews for Hawthorne, Gender, and Death: Christianity and Its Discontents
"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 ... Read more