How Long to Read The Production of Personal Life

How Long Does it Take to Read The Production of Personal Life?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read The Production of Personal Life by Joel Pfister

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book aims both to demystify and to reconstitute 'Hawthorne' as an object of study by rereading Hawthorne's fictions, mainly those from the early 1840's to 1860, in the context of the emergence of a distinctively middle-class personal life (the domestic emotional revolution that accompanied the industrial revolution. Recent histories of middle-class private life, gender, the body, and sexuality now enable us to bring a more encompassing grasp of history to our reading of the 'psychological' in Hawthorne's writing. Rather than taking the conventional view that Freud explains Hawthorne's psychological themes, the author draws on the history of personal life to suggest that mid-century psychological fictions help, historically, to account for the surfacing of a bourgeois Freudian discourse later in the century. The production of Personal Life also asks why it was that women in mid-century fiction, especially that written by men, were represented as psychological targets of male monomaniacs in the home. By connecting the enforcement of middle-class 'feminine' roles to psychological tension between the sexes, Hawthorne's fiction at times implicitly critiques the sentimental construction of gender roles on which the economic and cultural ascendancy of his class relied.

How long is The Production of Personal Life?

The Production of Personal Life by Joel Pfister is 268 pages long, and a total of 69,144 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Production of Personal Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read The Production of Personal Life aloud.

What Reading Level is The Production of Personal Life?

The Production of Personal Life is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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