Thoughts Painfully Intense
Hawthorne and the Invalid Author| By: | James Mancall |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780415937856 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136711961 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2002 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.