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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Glavni autor: Greven, David (Autor)
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2012]
Serija:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • 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.