Landscape and Ideology in American Renaissance Literature
Subtitle: Topographies of Skepticism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780521830645
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; American - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; USA; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; 19th century; Alienation (Social psychology); American literature; History and criticism; Skepticism in literature
First sentence: The notoriously elusive and ambiguous atmosphere of Hawthorne's colonial New England fiction, in which "objects" seem to start "away with almost ghostly indistinctness" and setting so often becomes murky and "confused," remains a misunderstood - if widely discussed - dimension of Hawthorne's craft.