The Corporeal Self: Allegories of the Body in Melville and Hawthorne

By Sharon Cameron

Book Overview

The Corporeal Self argues that questions about identity, conceived in bodily terms, are not only relevant for Melville and Hawthorne, the two nineteenth-century authors whose works are positioned at opposite extremes of the consideration of human identity, but lie at the heart of the American literary tradition, and have, in that tradition, their own revisionary status.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231075693
• ISBN13: 9780231075695
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher