The fragility of manhood
Subtitle: Hawthorne, Freud, and the politics of gender
By: David Greven
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780814212004; 9780814293010
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; Narcissism in literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; American Psychological fiction; Psychology in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The paradox of desire; title: Paradise lost : Hawthorne's traumatic narcissism; title: As his mother loved him: Hawthorne's "Gentle boy" and Freud's theory of male homosexuality; title: Revising the oedipal Hawthorne : criticism and the forms of narcissism; title: Struck by the mask : narcissism, shame, masculinity, and the dread of the visual; title: In a pig's eye : masculinity, mastery, and the returned gaze of The Blithedale romance; title: The gaze in the garden : femininity, fetishism, and tradition in "Rappaccini's daughter"; title: Visual identity : Hawthorne, Melville, and classical male beauty; title: A certain dark beauty : narcissism, form, and race in Hawthorne's late work; title: The haunted verge : aesthetics, desire, history.