Hawthorne inside out

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228 pages, parution le 13/01/2026

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Sous couvert d'une esthétique de la romance, les contes de Nathaniel Hawthorne font mine de se dérober à l’effort interprétatif, tout en attisant la possibilité du sens. Les essais ici rassemblés suivent les plis de la lettre et interrogent à nouveaux frais le contexte d’écriture – épistémologique, religieux, politique – de ces récits, sans jamais s'interdire de les confronter aux questions pressantes qui sont les nôtres, près de deux siècles après leur parution.

Hawthorne's oeuvre has long frustrated interpretative soundings, from Herman Melville to Henry James to Susan Howe. Dismissing interpretation altogether, however, might lead into another trap, that of overlooking the sometimes unpalatable political implications of his writings. Hawthorne Inside Out takes up this challenge and deploys the tools of critique while remaining mindful of the texts' resistance to interpretation. In particular, the volume aims at complicating the expectations of hermeneutics, especially the dialectics of surface and depth, and that of inside and outside, attached to it. Situating Hawthorne's short fiction in its epistemological, political, and religious context, the volume also reads the tales from the standpoint of "our" present traversed with democratic distrust and eco-anxiety; listening to the rustle of his language, to the sounds, echoes, and murmurs that electrify his prose, from potent inward voices to uncanny peals of laughter to ominous murmurs across revolutionary throngs; in sum, reading him close, reading him deep, and always, it is our hope, to the letter.

Sommaire

Introduction – “[F]rom the inmost heart outwardly”: Hawthorne Exposed

Thomas Constantinesco, Caroline Hildebrandt, Édouard Marsoin, and Cécile Roudeau

Preamble

Hawthorne transcendentaliste ?

François Specq

I.Gender Dynamics

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, and the Anxieties of (Re)production

Alice de Galzain

“Poison Was Her Element of Life”: The Making of Difference in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”

Anna Shmatenko

II. The Aesthetics of Politics

« Let us hear which will laugh loudest » : Le rire et l’histoire dans les Tales de Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pauline Pilote

Hawthorne’s Throngs

Danielle Follett

Interlude

Hawthorne séculier ?

Caroline Hildebrandt

III. Eco-readings

Domestic Ecologies and the Art of Short Fiction:Hawthorne’s and Melville’s Manses and Mosses

Michael Jonik

The Afterlife of Prophecy:Reading “The Great Stone Face” in the Anthropocene

Antoine Traisnel

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IV. Echo-readings

Church Bells in the Forest: Sound and Genre in “Young Goodman Brown” and “The May-Pole of Merry Mount”

Jamie Fenton

Voice, Logos and Community in “The Gentle Boy”

Florent Dubois

Interlude

Hawthorne Moralist?

Mark Niemeyer

V. On Inscription

Allegory, Beauty, and Gender in “Rappaccini’s Daughter”

Richard Anker

Nathaniel Hawthorne et Susan Howe :de « The Birthmark » à The Birth-mark, enjeux scripturaires de la marque

Antoine Cazé

Coda

Looking for the Letter

Shirley Samuels

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest
Collection	Intercalaires : agrégation d'anglais
Parution	13/01/2026
Nb. de pages	228
Format	17 x 22.9
Couverture	Broché
Poids	327g
EAN13	9782840166146