1st Edition

Eve Tempted Writing and Sexuality in Hawthorne's Fiction

By Allan Gardner Lloyd Smith Copyright 1984
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction; 1. The Elaborated Sign of the Scarlet Letter 2. The Artist of the Supplement 3. Immured in the Past 4. The Deployment of Sexuality 5. The Fourth Side: The Blithedale Romance 6. Arcadian Affections 7. Counterfeit Nature: The Marble Faun 8. Maud and Mud 9. Footprints in the Sand

Biography

Allan Gardner Lloyd Smith