{"product_id":"the-anatomy-of-national-fantasy-lauren-berlant-9780226043777","title":"The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the core of Berlant's work is a three-part study of \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, analyzing the modes and effects of national identity that characterize the narrator's representation of Puritan culture and his construction of the novel's political present tense. This analysis emerges from an introductory chapter on American citizenship in the 1850s and a following chapter on national fantasy, ranging from Hawthorne's early work \"Alice Doane's Appeal\" to the Statue of Liberty. In her conclusion, Berlant suggests that Hawthorne views everyday life and local political identities as alternate routes to the revitalization of the political and utopian promises of modern national life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Berlant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226043770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226043777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.70w x 0.61d","brand":"Lauren Berlant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227505979647,"sku":"9780226043777","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4913c8af-e400-4dae-b1f3-8297bf9038d4.jpg?v=1692809058","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-anatomy-of-national-fantasy-lauren-berlant-9780226043777","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}