Hawthorne, Gender, and Death: Christianity and Its Discontents

By Roberta Weldon

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230602908
• ISBN13: 9780230602908
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.3"