Thoughts Painfully Intense : Hawthorne and the Invalid Author (Studies in Major Literary Authors)

Mancall, James

Routledge（2002/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 164 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415937856
• DDC分類 813.3

基本説明

Reads Hatthorne's fiction in the context of nineteenth-century medical and pseudomecial discourse.

Full Description

First Published in 2002. This work reads Hawthorne's fiction inthe context of nineteenth-century medical and psuedomedical discourse that linked men of letters to debilitated invalids, a stereotype against which Hawthorne struggled throughout his career.

Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Fanshawe, the Alma Mater, and the Invalid Author; Chapter 2 Tremulous Hands and Devil's Claws; Chapter 3 Pure Hands and Witchcraft; Chapter 4 Out of Dream-Land; Chapter 5 Secret Histories and Silences; Chapter 6 Haunted Quacks and Neutral Territories;