The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life

by Lauren Berlant

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226043770
• ISBN13: 9780226043777
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"