Liquid Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820438306)

Vendor: Reiner Smolinski
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Liquid Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne

$37.95

Liquid Fire: Transcendental Mysticism in the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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Liquid Fire exposes the sophisticated discourse about the Self in Hawthorne's romances that serves not only as the foundation of Hawthorne's imagery, but often as the architectonic of the romance as a whole. Beginning with a study of contemporary constructions of the Self and meaning in the thought of New England clergyman Horace Bushnell, philosopher R. W. Emerson, and mesmerist J. P. F. Deleuze, the argument traces Hawthorne's involvement with these ideas and the process of his conversion to them, culminating in detailed analyses of the four major romances that show how deeply they are worked with speculations about the nature of the Self and its ambient reality. Later works are largely incoherent without this perspective on their construction.

Author: Reiner Smolinski,Harvey L. Gable Jr
ISBN-10: 0820438308
ISBN-13: 9780820438306
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1998
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
By Reiner Smolinski
By Reiner Smolinski
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The Author: Harvey L. Gable, Jr. earned his Doctorate from the University of Chicago. He has taught at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Naval Academy. He has published articles on Hawthorne, Faulkner, and Genesis, and his most recent work includes an investigation of the political currents underlying social fiction in the twentieth century.

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