| The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art Contributor(s): Johnson, Claudia Durst (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817300511 ISBN-13: 9780817300517 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: 813.3 |
| LCCN: 80015634 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art, Claudia D. Johnson identifies and explores the tension between Nathaniel Hawthorne's concepts of art and morality by describing its sources, plotting its manifestations, and suggesting how the opposing elements of this tension are finally reconciled. Hawthorne's major works, including his short fiction, exhibit a profound conflict between eighteenth-century views of an orderly, balanced, and static universe on the one hand and nineteenth-century conceptions of a universe in constant flux on the other. Johnson argues that Hawthorne, though he did not identify with any organized church, found in theology the myths that allowed him to negotiate a bridge between these two opposed views of the world and to forge the social, psychological, and aesthetic values that inform his art. |