The fragility of manhood [Texte imprimé] : Hawthorne, Freud, and the politics of gender / David Greven

Bibliogr. p. 292-305

The paradox of desire -- Paradise lost : Hawthorne's traumatic narcissism -- As his mother loved him: Hawthorne's "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