Eve Tempted: Writing and Sexuality in Hawthorne's Fiction

Eve Tempted: Writing and Sexuality in Hawthorne's Fiction
ISBN-10
1317204883
ISBN-13
9781317204886
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
186
Language
English
Published
2016-08-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Allan Gardner Lloyd Smith

Description

First published in 1984, this book offers a unique interpretation of Hawthorne’s work, making use of perspectives opened up by Derrida in his work on Rousseau. It offers a psycho-biography of the author as discoverable in the texts and avoids a simplistic Freudian analysis. In doing so, it illuminates the work and re-opens Hawthorne’s texts to creative discussion. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature.

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