1st Edition

Hawthorne's Romances Social Drama and the Metaphor of Geometry

206 Pages

by Routledge

206 Pages

by Routledge

206 Pages

by Routledge

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First Published in 2000. Throughout the nineteenth century, the study of geometry remained at the core of educational curricula in the United States, strongly affecting how educated Americans construed their world. This book examines how each of Nathaniel Hawthorne's romances presents a different geometric figure that becomes representative of the work's themes and narrative designs. These... Read more

Chapter 1 Hawthorne, Geometry and Social Drama; Chapter 2 The Circle of My Glance; Chapter 3 I Am Not the Fool You Take Me for; Chapter 4 The Sphere of Thought and Feeling; Chapter 5 The Topsy-Turvy Commonwealth of Sleep; Chapter 6 The Epoch of Annihilated Space; Chapter 7 Into This Labyrinth of Darkness;