1st Edition

Thoughts Painfully Intense Hawthorne and the Invalid Author

By James Mancall Copyright 2002
    164 Pages
    by Routledge

    164 Pages
    by Routledge

    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