Was Hawthorne a Real Woman’s Man?:

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Young Soo Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제126호, 287~311쪽, 전체 25쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.09.30

영문 초록

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s (1804-64) novels in the 1850s present memorable female characters who show his concern about women’s status in a male-dominant society. Older women like Hester, Hepzivah and Zenobia either suffer from the patriarchal order or fail in overriding the outdated frame of ideas enforced by men. Younger ones like Pearl, Phoebe and Priscilla are in a better condition as they are either outside of patriarchal dominion or compliant to the established values or changing social paradigm. While Hawthorne is sympathetic to women’s status, he shows an ambivalent attitude toward them as he was passive in the issues of social reform or women’s rights. He was pessimistic about the artificial change of social order and favored feminine women to feminists. His relations with his wife and other feminists like her sister Elizabeth Peabody or Margaret Fuller can be employed in interpreting women characters in these novels.

키워드

Hawthorne women feminist patriarch Puritan democratic reform