Rappaccini's Daughter

A Gothic Science Romance of Forbidden Love, Toxic Beauty, and Scientific Hubris in a Padua Garden

von Nathaniel Hawthorne

80 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Set in a shadowed Padua where science, desire, and moral ambiguity entwine, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter is one of his most haunting romances. The tale follows Giovanni Guasconti, a young student drawn to the beautiful Beatrice, whose life has been shaped by her father's botanical experiments. Written in Hawthorne's characteristic allegorical style, the work blends Gothic atmosphere with philosophical inquiry, situating itself within nineteenth-century debates about empirical science, original sin, and the corruption of innocence. Hawthorne, a central figure of the American Renaissance, repeatedly explored the burdens of inherited guilt, secrecy, and moral absolutism. Descended from Puritan New Englanders, including a judge of the Salem witch trials, he was especially alert to the dangers of fanatic certainty. In Rappaccini, the coldly experimental scientist, and in Baglioni, the rival scholar, Hawthorne dramatizes anxieties about knowledge divorced from compassion. This work is highly recommended for readers interested in psychological fiction, Gothic symbolism, and early critiques of scientific overreach. Compact yet inexhaustibly suggestive, it rewards careful reading and remains a powerful meditation on love, mistrust, and the perilous wish to master nature.

• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre
• ISBN: 9788028357559
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.12.2023
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Sharp Ink