The Production of Personal Life: Class, Gender, and the Psychological in Hawthorne’s Fiction

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Stanford University Press, 1991 - 252 ページ
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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Introduction
1
Historical Birthmarks
11
Monsters in the Hothouse
59
Plotting Womanhood
80
The Death of Ophelia as the Birth of Medusa
87
Melvilles Birthmarks
104
Sowing Dragons Teeth
122
Cleaning House
151
Disciplinary Misrepresentation
162
Notes
189
144
206
Bibliography
221
Index
241

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