text:"For a month or two, she dipped feverishly and disconnectedly into the dusty volumes."
From Summer, Edith Wharton. 2007, C-print, 71 x 56 cm. Edition of 5 (+ 3 A.P.)
Cracked Hearthstones considers the New England landscape through the eyes of its authors, writers of the great classics that contributed to establishing an American cultural identity. These texts describe a particular relationship between man and landscape, fraught with tension between savagery, paganism, and the benevolence of divine Nature, sublimated from the moment the New World was discovered. The society they depict struggles with often conflicting currents of change and conservatism. Melville, Wharton, Hawthorne, to name a few, address moral, ethical, social, spiritual issues that continue to be characteristic of an American mentality today, as evidenced in the stories of contemporary authors such as John Irving or Philip Roth.
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