Thoughts painfully intense
Subtitle: Hawthorne and the invalid author
By: by James N. Mancall.
Series: Studies in major literary authors ;; v. 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Subjects: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Knowledge -- Medicine.; Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Characters -- Authors.; Literature and medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Authorship -- Psychological aspects.; Authors -- Health and hygiene.; Mind and body in literature.; Authorship in literature.; Invalids in literature.; Medicine in literature.; Literature and morals.; Authors in literature.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-140) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fanshawe, the alma mater and the invalid author; title: Tremulous hands and devil's claws : short fiction; title: Pure hands and witchcraft; title: Out of dream-land : the Blithedale romance; title: Secret histories and silences; title: Haunted quacks and neutral territories.