Deception, Disease, and Democracy: Hawthorne's Masculine Bodies.
In Hawthorne's times, the development of manhood was closely aligned with the self-made man and a socially prescribed sexuality. Readers encounter an America haunted by hetero-normative masculinity in the characters' degenerate spirits and bodily debilitation. It mirrors the growing schism between c...
| Publicado en: | Nathaniel Hawthorne Review Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 122 - 142 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2024
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