1st Edition
Thoughts Painfully Intense Hawthorne and the Invalid Author
By James Mancall
Copyright 2002
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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;
Biography
James N. Mancall
