The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender /

"Merging psychoanalytic and queer theory perspectives, The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender reframes Nathaniel Hawthorne's work as a critique of the normative construction of American male identity. Revising Freudian and Lacanian literary theory and establ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greven, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864.
Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864 > Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Criticism and interpretation.
Psychology in literature.
Psychological fiction, American.
Narcissism in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Identite sexuelle dans la litterature.
Psychanalyse et litterature.
Psychologie dans la litterature.
Narcissisme dans la litterature.
Masculinite dans la litterature.
Psychological fiction, American > 19th century > History and criticism.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The paradox of desire
  • Paradise lost : Hawthorne's traumatic narcissism
  • As his mother loved him : Hawthorne's "The gentle boy" and Freud's theory of male homosexuality
  • Revising the Oedipal Hawthorne : criticism and the forms of narcissism
  • Struck by the mask : narcissism, shame, masculinity, and the dread of the visual
  • In a pig's eye : masculinity, mastery, and the returned gaze of 'The Blithedale romance'
  • The gaze in the garden : femininity, fetishism, and tradition in "Rappaccini's daughter"
  • Visual identity : Hawthorne, Melville, and classical male beauty
  • A certain dark beauty : narcissism, form, and race in Hawthorne's late work
  • The haunted verge : aesthetics, desire, history.

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