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

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The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life - Berlant, Lauren
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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. At the core of Berlant's work is a three-part study of The Scarlet Letter ...

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The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life 1991, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226043777

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