The Anatomy of National Fantasy
Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Publishing:30th Nov '26
£20.00
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A classic work that launched the career of one of the most influential scholars of their generation.
Lauren Berlant influenced generations of scholars in gender studies, affect theory, literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, and beyond. Her first book, The Anatomy of National Fantasy, was published in 1991, and it marked the start of an extraordinary career of groundbreaking essays, editorial collaborations, and monographs. This new edition reintroduces Berlant’s earliest work with a new foreword by Caleb Smith, who connects Berlant’s initial investigations as a scholar of nineteenth-century American literature to her more widely known interventions in how we understand the entanglements of national ideology, citizenship, affect, and everyday life.
“Intense, often brilliant.”
-- Frederick Newberry * The Journal of English and Germanic Philology *“In her brilliant feminist study, Berlant examines Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work . . . on political, popular, sexual, and textual levels. She traces Hawthorne’s thought about the complexities of citizenship, and, focusing on their feminist implications, she joins the current move to ‘historicize and theorize female political agency in the democratic social spaces of American culture.’”
-- Lucy M. Friebert * Signs *“A stunning investigation into the discursive practices that reconstitute the local resident as a citizen of an abstract memory called ‘America.’”
-- Russ Castronovo * American LiteratuISBN: 9780226855752
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
288 pages