The Anatomy of National Fantasy

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  • The Anatomy of National Fantasy Book Detail

  • Author : Lauren Berlant
  • Release Date : 1991-08-13
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 277
  • ISBN 13 : 0226043770
  • File Size : 43,43 MB

The Anatomy of National Fantasy by Lauren Berlant PDF Summary

Book 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. At the core of Berlant's work is a three-part study of The Scarlet Letter, 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.

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