Thoughts Painfully Intense: Hawthorne and the Invalid Author

by James Mancall

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415937856
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/26/2002
Series:	Studies in Major Literary Authors , #10
Pages:	164
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table 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;