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    The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…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.…”
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    Oriental Shadows : The Presence of the East in Early American Literature / by Egan, Jim, 1961-

    Published 2011
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