The fragility of manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the politics of gender /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Greven, David
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2012]
Subjects:	Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864 > Criticism and interpretation. Psychological fiction, American > History and criticism. Psychology in literature. Narcissism in literature. Masculinity in literature.

Table of Contents:

The paradox of desire
Paradise lost : Hawthorne's traumatic narcissism
As his mother loved him: Hawthorne's "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.