"His Delirious Solace": Consummation, Consumption, and Reform in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance

Temple, Gale

doi:10.1353/esq.2010.0007

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“…Drugs and alcohol, in other words, symbolize in Hawthorne's writings the psychological structures that are both created by and essential to the long-term health of a marketplace that demands repeatedly reconstituted desires and neuroses in its citizens -neuroses because we must feel that we are always incomplete, and desires because we must forever seek, and yet never attain, a fully realized sense of bodily and psychological health. 23 Put differently, Hawthorne suggests that capitalism, much like drug addiction, fosters repeated cycles of desire and deflation in its subjects. 24 For Benjamin Rush, a healthy middle class and a sustainable free market depend upon the monitoring and suppression of deviant or subversive behaviours that shadow and threaten middle-class normativity and success.…”

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‘Affrighted at the eager enjoyment’: Hawthorne, nymphomania, and medical manhood

Temple

2013

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Gale M. Temple'Affrighted at the eager enjoyment': Hawthorne, nymphomania, and medical manhood By examining together nineteenth-century medical descriptions of alcoholism and nymphomania, this essay argues that alcohol addiction in the nineteenth century was often portrayed as a form of diseased manhood that rendered men unfit for their roles as civic participants and economic providers. The essay also argues that Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter' can be read as powerful meditation on how the nineteenth-century scientific community's portrayal of addiction helped to concretize the hegemony of patriarchy and institutionalized medicine.

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‘Affrighted at the eager enjoyment’: Hawthorne, nymphomania, and medical manhood

Temple

2013

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“Earn It with the Sweat of My Brow”: Essential Labor and Survival in The Blithedale Romance

Blankenship¹

2021

Nathaniel Hawthorne Review

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“Earn It with the Sweat of My Brow”: Essential Labor and Survival in The Blithedale Romance focuses on the dynamics of class struggle and essential labor within the utopian community in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance. The article argues that at the center of all of the novel's failure and tragedy is a negotiation of labor and class. Informed by the coronavirus pandemic, the article focuses on instances in the novel wherein Miles Coverdale, the narrator, filters his viewpoint of labor on the farm through the lens of a “mist of fever.” In this mist of fever, Coverdale is able to acknowledge his own lack of commitment to labor on the farm as well as his reinforcement of class struggle through a degradation of working-class characters such as Silas Foster. The article is informed by a close reading that attends to the instances in which Coverdale withdraws from labor and deploys his clairvoyant vision; thus, the performative nature of labor on the farm is thrown into stark relief and Coverdale's own lack of commitment is revealed.

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"His Delirious Solace": Consummation, Consumption, and Reform in Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance

Cited by 2 publications

References 31 publications

‘Affrighted at the eager enjoyment’: Hawthorne, nymphomania, and medical manhood

‘Affrighted at the eager enjoyment’: Hawthorne, nymphomania, and medical manhood

“Earn It with the Sweat of My Brow”: Essential Labor and Survival in The Blithedale Romance

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