The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life

by Lauren Berlant

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Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawthorne mounted a sophisticated challenge to America's collective fantasy of national unity. She shows how Hawthorne's idea of citizenship emerged from an attempt to adjudicate among the official and the popular, the national and the local, the collective and the individual, utopia and history...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0226043770

ISBN13:9780226043777

Release Date:August 1991

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:278 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Related Subjects

Books & Reading Classics Criticism & Theory Fantasy General History & Criticism History of Books Humanities Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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