The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne's Fiction

by Joel Pfister

Book Overview

This book aims both to demystify and to reconstitute 'Hawthorne' as an object of study by rereading Hawthorne's fictions, mainly those from the early 1840's to 1860, in the context of the emergence of a distinctively middle-class personal life (the domestic emotional revolution that accompanied the industrial revolution. Recent histories of middle-class private life, gender, the body, and sexuality now enable us to bring a more encompassing grasp...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804719489
• ISBN13: 9780804719483
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"