The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne / Edition 1

by Sharon Cameron

Overview

The Corporeal Self argues that questions about identity, conceived in bodily terms, are not only relevant for Melville and Hawthorne, the two nineteenth-century authors whose works are positioned at opposite extremes of the consideration of human identity, but lie at the heart of the American literary tradition, and have, in that tradition, their own revisionary status.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231075695
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/08/1991
Edition description:	Columbia University Press Morningside ed
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.88(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Cameron (English, Johns Hopkins U.) examines questions about identity conceived in corporeal terms as these questions are represented by Melville and Hawthorne, authors whose constructions of the body are antithetical. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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