A friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world.
About the Author Steven Petersheim is associate professor of American literature at Indiana University East and coeditor of Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature..
Today\'s readers stand to gain a rich new understanding of Hawthorne by reassessing Hawthorne\'s attitude toward the natural world.
Rethinking Nathaniel Hawthorne and Nature also contributes to the growing scholarly work aiming to illuminate Hawthorne as a writer deeply engaged in the issues of his day, particularly involving the environment, rather than an author simply interested in reinterpreting colonial history.
Hawthorne\'s sense of kinship with the natural world runs deep in his work, particularly when his fiction is examined alongside his voluminous notebooks.
This book seeks to redress this omission by elucidating the sense of Environmentality that emanates from Hawthorne\'s romances and other writings.
A friend and associate of the Transcendentalists in Concord, Nathaniel Hawthorne has rarely been taken seriously as a writer interested in the natural world
