Thoughts Painfully Intense - Hawthorne and the Invalid Author

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.

List of 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;

About the author

James N. Mancall

Summary

This book reads Hawthorne's fiction in the context of nineteenth-century medical and pseudomedical discourse that linked men of letters to debilitated invalids, a stereotype against which Hawthorne struggled throughout his career.

Product details

• Authors: James Mancall
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2002
• EAN: 9780415937856
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93785-6
• No. of pages: 164
• Weight: 460 g
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography, Literature and Literary studies