| Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature: Pastoral Experiments and Environmentality Contributor(s): Petersheim, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 149858117X ISBN-13: 9781498581172 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $109.89 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Literary Criticism | American - General - Nature |
| Dewey: 813.3 |
| LCCN: 2019956800 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.1 lbs) 246 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |