Open Access"Within small compass": Hawthorne's Expansive Urban Garden in <i>The House of the Seven Gables</i>
Author(s) -
Rita Bode
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
brock review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1188-9071
DOI - 10.26522/br.v10i1.36
Subject(s) - expansive , compass , negotiation , art , sociology , art history , geography , cartography , social science , materials science , compressive strength , composite material
Nathaniel Hawthorne loved a garden. His writings consistently show his awareness of their complexity. He sees gardens as sites of negotiation that demand a relevant and meaningful presence for both nature and culture. In The House of the Seven Gables, his urban garden of "small compass" effectively envisions and then makes workable a model of co-existence inclusive of all human and organic life on equal terms, and strives to realize a non-hierarchical social model of human community.