Download or read book Hawthorne, Gender, and Death written by R. Weldon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on a range of critical approaches, including cultural anthropology, psychoanalytic theory, political justice theory, and feminist theory, to consider the ways that strategies of death denial and their compensatory consolations offer insight into the ethical, gender, and religious questions raised by Hawthorne's novels.