Hawthorne, gender, and death : Christianity and its discontents /
Weldon, Roberta,1945-
New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
Unholy dying in The scarlet letter -- "The custom-house," the secular pilgrim, and the happy death -- "Familial immortality" and the "dying of death" in The house of the seven gables -- From melancholy to mourning: death and politics in The Blithedale romance -- "Intimate equality": sacrifice and death in The marble faun.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Death in literature.
Mourning customs in literature.
Death
Christianity and literature
Sex role in literature.
Ethics in literature.