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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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2012]
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| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
- 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.