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The Production of Personal Life - Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne's Fiction (Paperback)
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This book aims both to demystify and to reconstitute 'Hawthorne' as
an object of study by rereading Hawthorne's fictions, mainly those
from the early 1840's to 1860, in the context of the emergence of a
distinctively middle-class personal life (the domestic emotional
revolution that accompanied the industrial revolution. Recent
histories of middle-class private life, gender, the body, and
sexuality now enable us to bring a more encompassing grasp of
history to our reading of the 'psychological' in Hawthorne's
writing. Rather than taking the conventional view that Freud
explains Hawthorne's psychological themes, the author draws on the
history of personal life to suggest that mid-century psychological
fictions help, historically, to account for the surfacing of a
bourgeois Freudian discourse later in the century. The production
of Personal Life also asks why it was that women in mid-century
fiction, especially that written by men, were represented as
psychological targets of male monomaniacs in the home. By
connecting the enforcement of middle-class 'feminine' roles to
psychological tension between the sexes, Hawthorne's fiction at
times implicitly critiques the sentimental construction of gender
roles on which the economic and cultural ascendancy of his class
relied.
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