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The Anatomy of National Fantasy

Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life

With a Foreword by Caleb Smith

With a Foreword by Caleb Smith

288 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature

“Intense, often brilliant.”

Frederick Newberry | The Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Foreword, by Caleb Smith

Introduction: “I am a citizen of somewhere else.”

1. America, Post-Utopia: Body, Landscape, and National Fantasy in Hawthorne’s Native Land

2. The Paradise of Law in The Scarlet Letter

3. The State of Madness: Conscience, Popular Memory, and Narrative in The Scarlet Letter

4. The Nationalist Preface

5. America in Everyday Life

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

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